Recommended by Joe Swenson

I must read more of Andrew’s work. There’s a richness to the characters, a uniqueness to the approach. We’re told by the experts in playwriting to not teach, to show not tell. You can’t help but to have gained knowledge from this play. You can’t help but to be entertained by this play. This play is excellent. Highly recommend.

What I really like about this monologue is that there is a very clear emotional apex and rather than continue to escalate in emotion, the character begins to internalize as they complete the arc. It's really brilliant monologue architecture. Supplanting expected emotion from the stage into the audience. As the reader or audience member, Cole uses our escalating emotions and desire for a positive outcome against us as Billy faces each rejection. Really smart and purposeful monologue. Highly Recommend

How fun would this be to stage! Seriously, Paul Donnelly has created a great story out of a situation gone wrong. It would be awesome to direct and produce this little nugget and I would start by showing the failed proposal first on a projector. The characters are rich, the threat of mom richer. Paul pushes all the right levers in this excellent 10 minute show. Highly recommend.

There’s a lot to unpack with this short, but quickly escalating play. Debra A. Cole crosses the lines of dramatic intent in this 2 wrongs might make things right play between a teacher and a father of a student. This show hits all the marks. You don’t want to care about the father and his situation, but you do. You don’t want to care about the teacher and where she’s gone with things, but you do. At the same time, Cole forces you into rooting against her characters. Tension, fast pace escalation, massive stakes. Great work!

Firstly, this needs to be longer. Much much longer. Christopher Plumridge is the master of the supernatural and he shows of his clever abilities in this show. I didn’t catch the twist until it was upon me and Plumridge absolutely nails the twist in this show. The characters are fantastic, but the story is so compelling. I’m left with questions that as an audience I would have to answer on my own. There is so much more I want to write, but I’ll leave it at, this is brilliant, clever, and a must see. Awesome work Chris!

Debra Cole has built a wonderful twisty play that centers around a bench at a rest area. Conceptually brilliant, the architecture of the play is what really seals the audience in as they try to figure out where the play is heading. Then boom. You get it. This is a play you have to read twice. Great work!

Surprisingly hilarious to start and then the hits keep rolling. Nancy Davidoff Kelton’s 10 minute show about Joanna in three unique situations is as funny as it is sad. I mostly laughed but that was because of the absurdity regarding how sad Joanna’s life was. Through it all Nancy tells the story of others through her characters. Mom in a nursing home, the daughter, an ex-husband, a blind date. It’s really well crafted and I was left wanting it not to end when it did end. Great work!

There’s a little bit of Mom in everyone’s mom. I know I can relate with my mom. This wonderful play that allows into a small window of time in Gabby, Becky, and their Mom’s lives is funny, frustrating, and totally worth the price of admission. What a fun play to stage. As a director I’d put Becky’s face on the back wall during the call. It’s be fantastic. Love this show!

Clever! Didn’t see the twist coming at all. Hopefully no one reads the recs before reading this show. It’s brilliant. The over-protective daughter. The subservient father/date, the overbearing mistress. Wonderfully captured and a performers delight in any of these roles! Well done!

Annalise Settefrati’s Burden of Proof is written in a manner that is easy to visualize. The protagonist, Margo, becomes someone to root for from the way that the playwright frames the opening scene to her redemptive efforts in coming forward in the end. In addition, Libby and Jackson play significant roles, but it’s the role of the Boss that will sit with you awhile.

It’s equal parts suspenseful and fluid. One scene flows to the next in a way that escalated Margo into the person you see in scene 1. Great work!