Recommended by Marshall Logan Gibbs

Part Mafia action flick, part spiritual journey, with a touch of mythology. Set against an exciting backdrop of 90s Vegas, this play will keep you on your toes - with possibly the most physical fighting/violence I’ve ever seen in a script- but it just works. It really works. And while you’re watching all of these painful blows and explosions of raw anger, you can’t help wonder who or what unseen force is pulling the strings… Very well done!

Seen at the Baltimore Playwrights Brew. What a great example of absurdism for the modern audience! Also immensely relatable - reminiscing without specifics, using shorthand in conversations to think back on the past with friends. But time keeps on ticking and we get further and further away from it, until we can’t quite figure out what it is that made the past so great in the first place. Very well done!

What a disturbingly current play! You will laugh at the so-specific-it’s-relatable bickering of the titular Generic Roommates, right until you realize the severity of what is being ignored right outside their front door. How late is too late to recognize you’re living in a fascist state? And how many people will have perished on the way there? 10/10 play.

A play about vampires for young audiences, with such a heartwarming message at its core! But is it possible to warm the heart of Dracula the Ten-Thousandth? You’ll have to read the play and find out! A lovely two-hander short, especially for youth theatre.

A hilarious take on the "infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters" with a satisfying (while simultaneously terrifying) twist you won't see coming! With quick wordplay, smart literature references, and the very real urgent threat of AI behind it all, I can't recommend this play enough.

In just four pages, Hambley gives us a masterclass in shortform drama structure: beginning in media res, a tense confrontation and refusal of the call to action, and an earned self-discovery and change. Above all else though, this snippet of a romance doesn't flounce around the circumstances causing the titled "Gay Panic," and she doesn't give us all the answers for how this relationship will end, either - instead we get a very real, very human conversation about tension and trust. Magnificent.

Succinctly yet successfully explores our current climate that feels equal parts dangerously uncharted and unnervingly familiar. There is hope in the power to conquer with a better “different”, but as the play suggests, there is often a cycle in our nature. This play is short yes, but necessary in 2025.

Immensely funny and surely relatable to anyone perusing the New Play Exchange. The Playwright’s desire for the “freedom to write” is punch-to-the-gut compelling and as Kniess has presented the argument in such clear terms, one can only hope this play itself will break through that metaphorical gate.

A sweet exploration of the archetypal hero and a much-needed reminder that no one needs to journey alone. Very well done!

This play is filled with so much visceral, poetic imagery, you almost want to read each line three or four times to fully mine it of all its meaning. Contemplative and as a major car crash survivor myself on one of those twisty roads mentioned - deeply relatable, deeply moving.