Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

What a clever concept. Arnold and Bernard are very busy people in this one-minute play, who seem to be having affairs with each other's significant others? Maybe? (How do they find the time?) The staging and the dialogue is very clever. I actually read this play through several times and kept catching new things. Great!

The feeling of losing yourself and your individual identity within the "us" of a married unit is so relatable and described so well in this monologue. Andrew Martinueau says so much with so little in this piece. I love it.

This is a beautiful monologue about love and grief and how people linger with us long after they're gone. It paints such a rich picture of who Allen was, who Allen and Philip were together, and who Philip is on his own. It's a perfect encapsulation of loss. Just lovely.

I love this monologue about new beginnings and self-reinvention and biting off more than you can chew. It's funny and charming, and I love that Piper never fully devolves into a stereotypical American who simply MUST have her creature comforts, but she accepts and adapts and vows not to let this experience defeat her. Funny and poignant all at once.

This monologue juxtaposes losing a tooth and losing a nephew so beautifully and devastatingly. What a beautiful study on grief and pain and how we bear them.

I was hooked on this monologue from the opening line ("Okay, Chad. I'm going to interrupt you there!") So clever and fun! This outrageous, well-read, and offended bridesmaid would be a blast for an actor to play.

This play feels like a lot like a 21st century “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” The couples bicker, the dialogue is sharp and often very funny, and it’s full of rich details (my favorite one was the playwright constantly quoting famous people.) A really lovely exploration on love, trauma, and talent.

I adore this play. It’s hilarious from the very first exchange, and it speeds along, twisting and turning and surprising you until the very last exchange. I was genuinely surprised and struggling right along with Eddie to catch up as new reveals are made as the play unfolds. I can’t say enough good things. Read it, produce it. It’s hilarious and smart, my favorite combination.

I love this play. A WASP-y Connecticut family ends up refugees in a Middle Eastern nation thanks to a new American civil war. This dark comedy flips the script and reminds us to treat refugees as we’d like to be treated, because you never know when your luck will run out. This play is timely in a hundred ways. Just fantastic.

Scott Sickles's writing is always a treat. He manages to make the mundane poetic and give voice to tiny moments I find hard to verbalize, like this monologue about falling in love (kind of, in a way) with a stranger in an art gallery without the stranger even realizing it. There are so many beautiful, simple details which really make this monologue beautiful and bittersweet.