Recommended by Joe Swenson

This is fantastic and what a great twist. Even the scenic explanations are hilarious. “Wait a second” Hannah has created a fun, mysterious, play about love and how we sometimes hide things from our people out of fear of being judged. I would love to see this on stage especially the costume for Riley in the final scene. Excellent work.

Naughty or Nice? Seriously this instant holiday classic will have you intently trying to figure out who wins in the end. Wonderful story, fabulous surroundings, this should definitely be produced and deserves an audience.

Hannah's imagination is inventive, twisted, caring, and creative. Magical actually. I recommend this show with all of my heart. It's one of those shows that you didn't know need to be written but your heart and head and every emotion that you feel reading this show, says that you're grateful that Hannah Lee DeFrates wrote this show. If not just to bring the characters to life, but to also bring you through all of the emotions. These characters are so real that you can feel them. This show should be produced and seen!

Dana Hall is amazing. Now that I've seen the show, I feel compelled to recommend this show again. The acting in the video is superb, really well done. The mutiny and relationship between the milk bottles and the "ah has" really do bring this quick little show to life. That and it's a fantastic hero play.

Adam probably knows this, but this play hits you with that Social Media desire for relevance. A like here, a retweet there. The relationship between Relay Bird and Tweeter is fantastic and they are funny. Ultimately though, this play has it all, great characters, well written witty dialogue, and relatability. Also the button at the end. Highly recommend and would love to see it staged.

Cool. Adam Richter drops us off in the middle of a reporter chatting with an informant when the producers asks who was it. From there it’s anyone’s guess, but it’s also cool. Fun short two-hander.

Adam Richter teases us with this delightful story of love, of family, and of regret. The tease is the relationship that Marley and Scrooge had and was there more? A nickname here, bedsides, and other subtleties suggest the love that Marley and Scrooge have for each other extends beyond business and it’s brilliant. As is usually the case with Adam’s plays, I want more. I want the relationship. Amazing play.

I was hooked from the opening by the clear chemistry between all of the characters. Scott Sickles is an incredible writer one that inspires and motivates other writers to reach beyond themselves to write better.

The word play, constant redefining, correcting, but ultimately the level of care that Scott puts into every one of his characters. Care that they are three-dimensional, care that they are real people, care that you can relate to each of them is incredible.

That's the part of Scott that inspires me and Intellectuals makes you care about his characters. Another masterpiece of theatrical writing.

Hannah Lee DeFrates is an exceptional mystery/twist writer. This play further confirms the previous statement. The brilliance of Hannah's writing is that everyone knows the twist, you feel the twist, there's a sense of what the twist is, but if you don't read it until the end you'll miss the actual twist. Hannah's creativity knows no bounds and that's part of the art of Hannah's writing. I have an incredible amount of respect for how she approaches her work and how she pushes her characters to the brink of potential disaster. This work needs to be produced.

Less about ghosts and more about the relationship and the fighting between siblings. The quick banter, the escalation, quickly getting over it, the humor, the phone call, the subtle ghost. I loved all of it. I also love that it was Cole's little sister that had the interaction. I wonder when he learned that his sister interacted with the ghost. Either way, it's fun, short, to the point, and deserves an audience.