Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

You will never look at Mrs. Claus the same way again! This short play is hilarious and surprising and too much fun. This would be a nice change of pace in a night of holiday shorts.

This monologue is terrific! The language is so spot on, and I loved how the way I felt toward Lola slowly but surely and completely changed as the monologue went on. I know this is listed as a radio play, but I think it would also be amazing live in a pitch-black theater. Whatever the medium, this one will stick with you.

Oh my gosh, I love this short. Jesus is just trying to die in peace, but Chatty Cathy crucified next to him won't shut up. I love a good Jesus play, and this one is hilarious. Plus with only two actors and low tech requirements, it could be easily produced pretty much anywhere - even on Zoom, if we're all driven back online. So much fun!!

This short play is wonderful! The mood is set immediately, and feels like a classic ghost story - moors and lost husbands and long illnesses - and you're drawn deeper and deeper into the world as the play goes on. It's amazing how much richness there is in only ten minutes. Plus, the ending is perfect. A gem of a short!

Oh my gosh, I love this short play! Alexander the Great has arrived. Do you submit, or do you wish to be destroyed? The townspeople mull over their choices with some smart, snappy dialogue as Alexander gets more and more annoyed. In addition to being hilarious, the play poses a good question - what exactly does a person have to accomplish to be considered Great? So much fun!

This short play about how Charles Dickens came to write A Christmas Carol is wonderfully absurd. There are so many jokes in such rapid succession that it's hard to catch them all. My favorite running bit was how Charles Dickens mentions at the top that he's paid by the word and then goes on to use more words than necessary every time he speaks. This play is a riot, no matter the season!

I read this one for the title - it felt like improv gone wrong - and it WAS. What a delightful short, watching an improv team fall apart in real time. There are some great opportunities for audience interaction, and the super peppy teammate working overtime to hold the group together for this one last show felt very true to the energy of improvisors I have had to sit through in the past. Spot on and loads of fun!

This short is sad and sweet and funny all at once. A dad is teaching his daughter how to jump start a dead car battery, but it's so much more than that. So simple and beautiful, and it perfectly captures that parental desire to teach your kids as much as you can to keep them safe - as well as that preteen belief that these lessons are ridiculous. Lovely!

Well, this is delightful. The story of the nativity from the POV of the folks who nabbed the last room at the inn, this short has cameos by familiar Biblical names and tons of smart dialogue. This would be an amazing play in an evening of shorts at Christmastime or any time!

It was cathartic to hear this Tennessee English teacher tell off his superiors over the list of short stories they want him to teach - a very homogeneous list. This is such an important piece for the times and the current battle over what should be taught in American schools. I hope the powers that be listen to folks like the teacher in this monologue - even if he is another fucking white dude. Lovely work!