Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

This monologue is heartbreaking. A young person about to commit suicide tries to find their cat to say goodbye, talking to the cat as they search. It is beautiful and sad and also hopeful. What a great opportunity for a young actor.

Well this is delightful. I didn't know where it was going to go when it started, but then a certain someone enters, and you'll laugh for five pages. What a fun short piece!

Oh my gosh, THIS PLAY! It is so funny (even the stage directions!) and then it will turn on a dime and be all of a sudden sad or touching. I love love love the dialogue. Everyone speaks like a real human, in sentence fragments, with stops and restarts. (Also, as someone with celiac disease, I appreciated the running bit about there not being gluten-free options on the retreat, because there NEVER ARE. They say there will be, and there never are.) I absolutely adored this and can't wait to read more of Gina Femia's work!

I have been meaning to read more of Vince Gatton's plays related to (the fabulous!) "You Have Earned Bonus Stars," and I'm not sure what's taken me so long. It's hard to write a truly suspenseful play that's only 10 minutes long, but this sure is one. Wow. It's terrific.

Oh my gosh, this is exactly how my parents go to the movies. Well, maybe not quite this bad. But very close. This short play felt like a familiar trip home. I love the way the dialogue zips along and how funny it is from start to finish, even as it deepens into more serious moments/emotions. Wonderful!

This short play manages to be both funny and touching. A good reminder that there are many ways to measure success. This would probably be a big hit in any evening of short plays.

Ooooh this play took a turn I was NOT EXPECTING. Sooo good! I don't want to give anything away, but this is a fabulous 10 minute play.

This is such a sweet short play. A mother breaks the news to her autistic son that his dad is moving out, and Pamela Morgan manages to make you sympathize with each of them individually as well as collectively, as a family unit. So well done!

Ooooh this play! The dialogue just flies along and the characters sound so much like teenagers. ("Get the fuck off my nutsack, Mom" in particular made me laugh.) Nick Malakhow has a great ear for dialogue. I also love the way texts and other social media are projected onto the wall. This play is wonderful, and it's a perfect vehicle to draw in young people who don't think theater is for them.

Oh wow. Neil Radtke does a lot with a little in this one minute play. Only four lines of dialogue, but it still managed to leave me touched and saddened. I read it through three times. Wonderful!