Recommended by John David Westby

This is a two-person farce deftly crafted and paced as a children's play date accelerates and spins out of control. In many ways, with the two actors doubling throughout in ever faster changes and offstage banter, I kept thinking of Alan Ayckbourn in its dissection of modern families.

A sustained, always interesting monologue that details the heart of a hard-headed hockey player and the game he must play. Audience becomes complicit as we indeed come to see the drama and the tension and the battles - on a stage or on the ice. well done.

a sharp, poignant sci-fi that explores the importance of memory, loss, and what happens when a society forgets its past. The play possesses real urgency and intellectual bite with the theatricality of bringing the audience into the immersion. It's devastating and clear ending implicates us directly in the loss of earth. A lean, thoughtful piece that lingers.

The play-within-a-play comes across as especially powerful, blurring rehearsal and reality of the Nazi takeover of Norway until the stage is overtaken by the very war it tries to process. The writing is spare and not melodramatic, allowing the final image of handing the rifle to the son to land with devastating clarity. A compact, deeply felt meditation on the necessity of doing art in the face of catastrophe.

A tender, insightful play about a brilliant, neuro-divergent young man navigating love, friendship, and the bewildering circuitry of human connection. Dave Osmundsen writes with wit and compassion, capturing the humor, frustration, and longing of a mind that experiences the world differently. By the end, Light Switch illuminates the quiet courage it takes to reach for connection.

This is a bold psychologically intimate two-hander about visibility, aging, desire, and asymmetrical attachment. The two halves - Seen and Headrush - create a highly theatrical, modern, steamy point/counterpoint.

Delightfully absurd short that balances character-driven comedy with real emotional stakes. Looking for Bruce imagines a runaway Persian cat returning home with streetwise swagger and existential questions about love, independence, and the evolving bonds between companions. This play had me at a cat with a mohawk!

This short play is wry, observant, and unsettling as it explores an important topic. As four women wait at a bus-stop, the play captures the rhythms of everyday conversation and slowly reveals deeper truths beneath the chatter. The waiting unfolds into a poignant portrait of friendship, denial, and ultimately courage.

Ever want your bathroom scale to talk back to you? In this wickedly funny play it's uncomfortably honest! A talking bathroom scale becomes a sharp-tongued metaphor for body image and self-worth. It balances biting humor with vulnerability. Very timely in how it deals with body issues and the intimate battle between who we the weight of expectations.

I saw this in a staged reading and it really hits. Audiences laugh but there's a deep undertone that is darkly funny and razor-sharp. Mr Bunny turns a harmless children’s book into a chilling interrogation about censorship, ideology, and artistic freedom. McKay’s escalating absurdity lands real stakes beneath the laughter. Absolutely no surprise that this satire earned national recognition in the 2026 KCACTF playwriting program Gary Garrison Award for 10 Minute Plays.