Recommended by Jennifer O'Grady

Haunting and moving short play I had the pleasure of seeing in a recent production by NextStage Theatre. A wonderfully theatrical and bittersweet tribute to theater. Loved it!

I love the surprising situation Giffin Speckman has created here. The voices of her characters (one a teen boy, the other a young man) sound so real and what unfolds between them is so lovely and poignant. A marvelous play for two young actors.

Wonderful theatrical monologue about pain and toxic relationships and ultimately, courage. Lamedman's Caroline feels so real that I feel like I'm right in the room with her, witnessing her pain and then wanting to cheer at the end as she comes to her female-empowering realization about her own life. So well done!

Funny and ultimately female-empowering monologue about love and dreams and self-expression and self-acceptance. Great for any holiday-themed festival!

Beautiful play about grief and memory and holding on and letting go, all of it packed into ten wonderfully theatrical minutes--and with humor too! Loved it.

I couldn't resist a play about a sea turtle, but Duhon's play is so much more that that, as it skillfully explores the grief of a couple mourning their lost child. Powerful and very moving.

I love the suspense in this taut thriller and how what starts out seeming to be one thing is something quite different and very surprising. Well done!

What a beautiful and evocative play, full of poetry and emotion and with so many wonderful possibilities for casting and staging. Lamedman does something marvelously unique here that makes her play open to different interpretations, yet her sure command of dialogue and the stage create a powerfully theatrical experience for the reader and I'm sure, an audience too. Would be wonderful to see on stage.

Haunting and theatrical short play about a Korean mother and son and the conflict between tradition and finding one's own place in the world. This would be very powerful on stage.

Beautiful and deeply moving play exploring incarceration and the prison system. Theatrical and unflinchingly truthful, this is a play for our time that is also timeless.