Recommended by Jennifer O'Grady

  • Jennifer O'Grady: A Quiet Place by Debbie Lamedman
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    A super-charming and very funny play with four really fun roles for high-school-or-college-aged actors. What I especially love and admire is how Lamedman has made Luke, the kid bothering everyone else in the library by talking on his cellphone, an engaging character even though he's loud and annoying. This would be an excellent choice for any short-play fest and is a great piece for audiences of all ages.

    A super-charming and very funny play with four really fun roles for high-school-or-college-aged actors. What I especially love and admire is how Lamedman has made Luke, the kid bothering everyone else in the library by talking on his cellphone, an engaging character even though he's loud and annoying. This would be an excellent choice for any short-play fest and is a great piece for audiences of all ages.

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  • Jennifer O'Grady: Disengaged Bedfellows (1 minute play) by Elisabeth Giffin Speckman
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    Wonderfully theatrical one-minute play about loss, with a fantastic surprise at the end that subverted my expectations. So well done!

    Wonderfully theatrical one-minute play about loss, with a fantastic surprise at the end that subverted my expectations. So well done!

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  • Jennifer O'Grady: Mirrors by Gina Femia
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    Devastating ten-minute play about love and survival, powerfully and beautifully written and with two magnificent roles (a mother and daughter) for women actors. Essential for our time and any time.

    Devastating ten-minute play about love and survival, powerfully and beautifully written and with two magnificent roles (a mother and daughter) for women actors. Essential for our time and any time.

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  • Jennifer O'Grady: Familiar by Robert J. LeBlanc
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    A lovely and heartbreaking short play about having a parent with dementia. LeBlanc's characters and their situation are so vivid and realistic that I feel like I know these two characters as people, as opposed to characters on page. No surprise that this play has had so many productions. Powerful and so well very done.

    A lovely and heartbreaking short play about having a parent with dementia. LeBlanc's characters and their situation are so vivid and realistic that I feel like I know these two characters as people, as opposed to characters on page. No surprise that this play has had so many productions. Powerful and so well very done.

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  • Jennifer O'Grady: What Baggage by Kim E. Ruyle
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    Ruyle's charming play shines a wonderful and needed light on the complexities of romantic relationships between older people who already have other responsibilities, passions, offspring and pets firmly in place. With two great roles for older actors, this would make a terrific addition to a ten-minute play festival.

    Ruyle's charming play shines a wonderful and needed light on the complexities of romantic relationships between older people who already have other responsibilities, passions, offspring and pets firmly in place. With two great roles for older actors, this would make a terrific addition to a ten-minute play festival.

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  • Jennifer O'Grady: YOU NEED NUTMEG IN FISHKILL by Steven G. Martin
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    It's 1960 in Fishkill, NY, and what appears to be the perfect nuclear family is actually anything but, as Martin shows us in his hilarious and continually surprising comedy-horror mashup. So much fun!

    It's 1960 in Fishkill, NY, and what appears to be the perfect nuclear family is actually anything but, as Martin shows us in his hilarious and continually surprising comedy-horror mashup. So much fun!

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  • Jennifer O'Grady: I Don't DO Holidays by Daniel Prillaman
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    Very funny dark comedy that uniquely skewers the "joys" of the holiday season. How I would love to hear Prillaman's Piotr and Veruth!

    Very funny dark comedy that uniquely skewers the "joys" of the holiday season. How I would love to hear Prillaman's Piotr and Veruth!

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  • Jennifer O'Grady: The Mrs. Claus Experiment (4) by Christopher Soucy
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    Charming and uplifting holiday play about Santa and a wonderfully accepting elf who just wants Santa to be happy in whatever way that means to Santa. Great for all ages.

    Charming and uplifting holiday play about Santa and a wonderfully accepting elf who just wants Santa to be happy in whatever way that means to Santa. Great for all ages.

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  • Jennifer O'Grady: THE SEVERED HEAD ATOP THE TREE HAS A FEW THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE HOLIDAY by Adam Richter
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    Funny and absolutely delightful holiday play that wonderfully combining the loneliness of a broken tree ornament, a destructive pet cat, and two humans who don't quite get what the holidays should be about. Super-fun for all ages!

    Funny and absolutely delightful holiday play that wonderfully combining the loneliness of a broken tree ornament, a destructive pet cat, and two humans who don't quite get what the holidays should be about. Super-fun for all ages!

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  • Jennifer O'Grady: Sometimes, When It’s Night, I Run Through the Neighborhood Naked and No One’s Caught Me Yet by DC Cathro
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    A beautiful and unusual holiday two-hander that's moving and full of surprises. Just wonderful.

    A beautiful and unusual holiday two-hander that's moving and full of surprises. Just wonderful.

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