Recommended by Victoria Z. Daly

Heard this, along with its companion song, on the Writers Block Radio Hour on SuperSoundScotland.net, and it went over like gangbusters! Rose has a beautiful feel for voice of a tween girl -- yearning, full of beans and and joyous. This would make a great audition monologue for a teen actor.

Gill has managed to cover so much territory in such a short amount of time: the meaning of life, loneliness, the carelessness of humans, climate change, the end of the world as we know it ... all with a sense of imagination, humor and theatricality. This play left me with chills and on the edge of weeping. Consider this one for your festival of shorts, your climate change festival, your festival of existentialism .... I loved it.

The voice of Fanny is a delight in this monologue, so specific, funny and heartfelt as she sorts through regret, longing, bitterness, and decision. This would be tremendous fun for an actor to play and an audience to see in performance!

Speckman captures the physical and emotional bond that goes beyond time and space in this beautiful letter to a future daughter. This mother (to be, someday) recognizes that what she and her daughter will share -- what they already share -- is already bigger than both of them. Lovely.

Ah, poor Carl. Doomed to a life of imagining a raspy-baritone Voiceover Guy solving his romantic dilemmas. (Or IS he imagining it?) In this hilarious, theatrical romp through the psyche of a shlemiel, we can't help but root for Carl -- if only he could control the Voiceover Guy, whose bombastic enthusiasm threatens to ruin everything, Consider this short for your comedy festival or festival of 10's! Signed, Married to a Voiceover Guy (No joke. I am.)

This play -- by turns funny, prickly, and bittersweet -- covers big swaths of territory in a such a short amount of time: intimacy, grief, leave taking, care taking, and the white lies and stories we need to tell ourselves and others in order to keep us all going, Heartfelt and beautifully rendered.

An eloquent prayer and vision of hope. It calls to the angels within us to transform us into better humans, post-pandemic, than we were before. Lovely and inspirational.

This monologue from an unhinged (or ... is she?) widow is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, with an emotional arc that layers both anger and grief. So much here for an actor to work with -- it would be great fun to see on stage. An excerpt could also make a great audition monologue.

This one left me with chills! Great specificity of dialogue, a wonderful concept, and a surprise ending. I would love to see this on stage; I bet the debate about undetectable energy creates a thrill of actual energy from actors to audience.

This funny, scary play had me on the edge of my seat. Foster's wonderful dialogue not only differentiates these two characters, out for a night of treasure hunting. It also sets the mood and -- along with the skillful use of theatrical devices -- brings the audience straight into the eerie setting and holds it there fast. The stakes keep rising until the end. I'd love to see this play staged!