Recommended by Jennifer O'Grady

This terrific ten-minute play takes on such an important topic and does so with great wit, intelligence, and theatricality. This would be enormous fun to perform and to watch and will also get audiences thinking. So well done!

Wildly funny and inventive short play that would be a blast to perform. Audiences of all ages will love this!

A beautiful play exploring family ties, generational conflicts and the journey toward healing and acceptance. Centering two adult brothers with lingering trauma in their past, who've gathered at the home of one for a Passover Seder, Heyman makes his characters and their struggles feel so real that it's startling to remember after reading that they're characters and not actual living humans. With a lovely and hopeful ending, this would make a wonderful addition to any one-act festival.

One of Haas's Beatles song-title-inspired short plays, I AM THE WALRUS is just delightful and wonderfully captures the everyday but, to them, high-stakes powerful struggles between siblings during play. With two fun roles for kids (or even adults playing kids) I AM THE WALRUS makes perfect viewing for all ages.

What a fantastic ten-minute play--moving and beautiful. No surprise that it's had so many productions. The script gives us info about who its three characters are, but for anyone who hasn't read and is instead watching it, the play's story will unfold in a very surprising and wonderfully theatrical way. So well done!

Syran’s marvelously theatrical full-length play with music, set in 1890s Paris, explores the revolutionary Impressionism art movement and centers Suzanne Valadon, an artists’ model, muse and eventual artist, who refuses to be “boxed in” merely because she's a woman. Syran brings to life a plethora of fascinating characters including Monet, Manet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and many others, as well women painters Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt who struggle for the same opportunities their male contemporaries receive. The play offers flexible casting and provides a unique theatrical experience that I would love to see on stage!

Absolutely delightful and funny play about friendship and connections, with four wonderful roles for older actors and characters any audience would love. So good!

Cole's ten-minute drama is a moving exploration of family and what it means, as two middle-aged sisters meet, for the first time, the younger sister they never knew they had. With an engrossing and (thanks to DNA websites) realistic situation and three great roles for women, this play is sure to connect with audiences everywhere.

Loewenstern's fantastic and award-winning ten-minute two-hander puts us right into 1192 during Richard the Lionhearted’s religious Crusade, as an ill Richard receives a surprising visit from the sultan Saladin's personal physician, Maimonides. A suspenseful and engrossing exploration of power, loyalty and faith and the stark contrast between kindness and destruction, the play is both vividly historic and has relevance for our time too. So good!

I got to hear a terrific reading of this short darkly comic play which wonderfully satirizes the TV industry. The audience was both laughing and feeling the painful truth of the women characters in their unusual writer's room. Well done!