Recommended by Anamaria Guerzon

A group of queer people who have known each other for far too long. The echos of mistakes, guilt, and a brokenness that can't be fixed. This play was a wild ride of starts, stops, and desperation for a resolution that may never come. I loved it, and I'm so excited to explore more of Tankus's work!

An incredible piece about pregnancy, the ways in which we construct our identities, and the inevitable end of the world. Floored by this hilarious/heartbreaking/insightful play from Nelson, and hope to see if on the road to production soon!

A nuanced and hilarious romp through the realities of being a service worker! I'm excited to say this is one of McKenna's most thought provoking and well constructed plays to date. Using playful characters and fan fiction within a story, the playwright explores capitalism, and the question: "what makes a monster?"

A wonderful one act examining gender, race, culture, family, and the way all of them touch and effect each other. This script has lively characters all doing their best to love each other, and messing up along the way-- it highlights the complex nature of family ties, what bonds us together, and holds us apart, especially in BIPOC spaces. Vigil is a powerful new voice who I've seen do amazing things in our Seattle Theatre scene, and I look forward to following his career!

Good stuff! This is a poignant story about college students just trying to figure things out. What I really loved was the examination of the pressures put upon youth that come out before their peers, and the way this shapes their relationship to themselves and others.

I really love this play. My expectations for Joe especially were subverted at every turn. Beautiful character growth, and portrayals of love and trauma.

As a mixed race Filipina-American, this play hit close to home for me. In the mixed race experience, there is often a fear: am I embodying my culture enough? Am I making my family enough? Hoe can I, as a single, American person, resist colonization? Andrei tackles these questions with empathy for every character and perspective. She wields the world of Filipino-Americans, diaspora, and coming of age in college with elegance, hilarity, dance, tattoo, and an ancient curse.

I saw this play at The Scratch's workshopped production, and it was one of the most effective deconstructions of rape culture on college campuses that I've ever seen.

I was particularly moved by the way that Russell was constructed as your run of the mill love interest in the first half, before his image was torn down piece by piece by his actions, privilege, and the wall of financial interest protecting him in the second.

This play is important, and I see a bright future ahead as it is further developed.

Read it.

This play is raw, and angry, and hopeful, all at the same time, which is what I believe the best works of art always are.

I've been attached to this project for many years, as an actor, musical orchestrator, and director, and my admiration for the play has only grown over time.

Danielle uses Boy's inner world to craft a play about toxic masculinity, victimization of femme people in toxic masculinity, and the ultimate destructive pathway that it crafts. She uses this play to put words to the unspeakable: school shootings', men, women, and accountability.

Read this play.