Recommended by Jack Seamus Conley

Loved everything about this one minute play. It’s sharply funny (I laughed out loud reading it), but also insightful and very time. I would absolutely love to see this work produced, and it would be a great addition to a short play festival. Excellent work by playwright Greg Lam!

Beautifully written and thoughtful play that tells a too-little-known story from history (for instance I’d never even heard of it before reading this play)! The play makes excellent use of characterization, voiceover, and time shifting and would be an excellent piece for stage or virtual theatre. Well done!

An Invocation To His Muse is an incredibly thoughtful and soul-stirring look at the complex relationship between an artist and their work. Despite the play’s source material being an Edward Hopper painting, Edward is not in the play— it chooses instead to focus on his wife, Jo, a refreshing take on the often all-too-male-centered world of art history. Beautifully done.

Sharply funny and unapologetically satirical, Lenny Hort’s “Julius C-SPAN” makes for an engaging and thoroughly entertaining take on the events behind the demise of the real Julius Caesar. Hort has expertly delivered a piece that is thoroughly entertaining for modern audiences whether or not they’re familiar with the ancient history behind it. Well done!

A beautifully written, thought provoking comedy (not an easy feat to balance, but Arianna Rose does this wonderfully) that explores a reimagined meeting between Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart. Would be a wonderful and fun set of roles for any female-identifying actors. In Joy Ride, the experience of reading or watching the play lives up to its name. Well done.

A moving, thoughtful, and simply staged (to excellent effect) story about a fascinating pair of people and their little-explored marriage (and legal separation). In Expectations, Charles and Kate Dickens come to life in believable ways that, despite being alive long ago, continue to resonate today. Excellent work!

With "Unfortunately," Rachel Feeny-Williams gives us a hilarious and all-too-relatable takedown of the joys and frustrations of the play submission process. Not only is this piece creatively and thoughtfully executed, it also makes me think about what artists go through to get their work seen, and that's something I don't see tackled in scripts very often! Although I'm sure this play hits closest to home with writers, I believe there's plenty here for the general public and it would doubtless fully entertain non-writers as well. I would love to see this play produced someday-- excellently done...

I had the absolute pleasure of directing this beautifully written piece for Rainy Day Artistic Collective. Equal parts haunting and heartbreaking, it is a stunning and rattling adaptation some of a literary giant’s most famous work — this can be difficult to tackle, but playwright Dana Hall has achieved a fresh and modern adaptation of it with amazing skill and grace. I highly recommend this piece, both for Edgar Allan Poe fans, and people who just want something that makes them thing, alike.

This play is simply hilarious! I love the device of a “little white lie” going too far, and “To The Moon” employs it to great effect. Joe’s well-intentioned mishaps, and the other characters’ balance between critiques of his choices and encouragement to do what scares him, are both endlessly entertaining and make all of the characters very human. This would provide fun opportunities for actors and crew, and I’d love to see this piece produced!

A one minute play is a tough thing to master, but this is a brilliant example of it done just right. “Out, Out Damned Bird!” is about so much more than it would seem at first glance, and that’s always a wonderfully exciting thing to discover. Nora Louise Syran has crafted a sharp, entertaining, thoughtful, and excellently written critique of gender dynamics that resonates deeply. The brief length of this piece only adds to its effectiveness, feeling complete and earned. Excellent work, highly recommend.