Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

I love this short play. It's hard to write plays about death and grief without them feeling overwrought, but this piece is perfect. Little details get dropped all along the way which pay off emotionally in the end. I saw this performed with Playground-Chicago over Zoom, and I would love to see it again live and get to feel the audience reacting to it. It packs a big punch in only ten minutes.

Oh my gosh. This one-minute comedy is fantastic. It might be my favorite one-minute play ever.

This short piece is VERY satisfying: An internet troll suffers consequences for his actions. What a concept! This dark comedy is SO sharp and utterly original. I loved every twist and had no idea how it was all going to wrap up in only ten minutes. Ann Marie is doing the Lord’s work. Bless the Internet God. FYAD.

Well this is delightful. Six short plays based on animals from the Bible, and they are all too much fun. It's hard to pick a favorite, but I think mine might be "The Great Fish & Jonah" - but the fly who thinks Baby Jesus's poop is the best thing he's ever tasted is pretty fantastic too, and the giraffes on the Ark are surprisingly heartbreaking, and the snake's monologue flips the Adam & Eve story on its head so well, and Noah's sons grumbling as they fill the Ark with animals... it's very hard to pick. Read them all.

This play captures so perfectly that in-between space between girlhood and adulthood where you're trying to grow up, thinking that you ARE pretty grown up, but then at the same time, you're not. I was hooked from the character descriptions (WINDY: never switched from pads to tampons) and loved watching this alternatingly funny and uncomfortable story play out.

This short is tons of fun. Two incompatible TV personalities are forced to host a live children's show together when the regular hosts can't make it, and all quickly descends into chaos in the best way. I loved their asides during the story hour and their rewrites to the story itself. What a fun piece!

Oh hey. Sofya Levitsky-Weitz wrote a play about my best friend from high school and me. There's so much universality within the specificity here of the things young women struggle with in their teens and 20s, and I love how the story toggles back and forth in time between Jean and Meril at 17 and 27. It's a wonderful study of two girls trying to make it to adulthood unscathed, the things that haunt them, and how easy it is to be casually cruel to the ones you love the most. So great!

This short is great. Judas gets one day off every thousand years, and he’s using this one to lawyer up and get out of the 9th circle of hell for good. I appreciated that there’s a little bit of ‘Who is this guy? Is this a joke?’ but the play doesn’t dwell there, instead moving on to the justice Judas seeks, why he thinks he deserves it, and how God tries to stop it. I’m a sucker for funny plays featuring folks from the Bible, and this is a delightful one.

This is a clever concept, hilariously executed. Roger - newly deceased - was able to choose 6 people to have with him in the afterlife. He chose quickly, not quite understanding what was going on, and his afterlife begins chaotically to say the least. I loved watching all the characters interact and learning who they all were in relation to each other. This is a funny, poignant play. It's sad at times, but also I found it comforting to know that in DC Cathro's universe, even after death we still have opportunities for self-improvement.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. John Busser never disappoints, and this short play is fabulous. Lots of funny, smart dialogue and enough wordplay to delight any/all middle-aged dads. A delightful 10 minute play about the horror story we're all trapped inside.