Recommended by Jennifer O'Grady

  • Jennifer O'Grady: Wetiko Principle

    Wow, I needed this play right now. Soucy's skillful short play about grappling with post-election rage is so relevant to our time and feels both fantastically cathartic and wonderfully therapeutic too. Reading this play is like taking a big gulp of fresh air. So well done!

    Wow, I needed this play right now. Soucy's skillful short play about grappling with post-election rage is so relevant to our time and feels both fantastically cathartic and wonderfully therapeutic too. Reading this play is like taking a big gulp of fresh air. So well done!

  • Jennifer O'Grady: Beautiful Noises

    Sickles' fearless and theatrical play intertwines grief, death, family relationships, homophobia and hope in a beautifully crafted script that offers so much to actors and would resonate with anyone who's ever lost a loved one. Marvelous work!

    Sickles' fearless and theatrical play intertwines grief, death, family relationships, homophobia and hope in a beautifully crafted script that offers so much to actors and would resonate with anyone who's ever lost a loved one. Marvelous work!

  • Jennifer O'Grady: The Doctors Call

    Plumridge's short play movingly centers a dying patient and his doctor with warmth, heart, and truthfulness. Both characters feel wonderfully real, and despite the sobering subject matter the play left me feeling uplifted. Would that we could all have doctors like Dr. Khatri!

    Plumridge's short play movingly centers a dying patient and his doctor with warmth, heart, and truthfulness. Both characters feel wonderfully real, and despite the sobering subject matter the play left me feeling uplifted. Would that we could all have doctors like Dr. Khatri!

  • Jennifer O'Grady: A Second Chance to Say Goodbye

    Beautiful. Busser's ten-minute mingles suspense with an extremely moving story about family relationships, altruism, dying, and second chances. Just wonderful!

    Beautiful. Busser's ten-minute mingles suspense with an extremely moving story about family relationships, altruism, dying, and second chances. Just wonderful!

  • Jennifer O'Grady: Ice in Their Veins

    Kantor's glittering dark comedy with heart explores (and astonishingly intertwines) female friendship, competitive ice dancing, internet influencers and skincare products with the playwright's signature wit, intelligence, and theatricality. With terrific dialogue, five fantastic roles for young women, and a wonderfully unusual and surprising story, this is a play all audiences would love. Produce it!

    Kantor's glittering dark comedy with heart explores (and astonishingly intertwines) female friendship, competitive ice dancing, internet influencers and skincare products with the playwright's signature wit, intelligence, and theatricality. With terrific dialogue, five fantastic roles for young women, and a wonderfully unusual and surprising story, this is a play all audiences would love. Produce it!

  • Jennifer O'Grady: The Changeling (Not that one. No, not the other one either)

    Who could resist this title? (I couldn't!) But the play is much more than its title--it's a really fun and funny ten-minute mix of dark comedy, horror and sci-fi , as well as a witty exploration of female friendship and small-group dymanics. With terrific dialogue and four great (and surprising!) roles for women, this would be super-fun to stage and perform.

    Who could resist this title? (I couldn't!) But the play is much more than its title--it's a really fun and funny ten-minute mix of dark comedy, horror and sci-fi , as well as a witty exploration of female friendship and small-group dymanics. With terrific dialogue and four great (and surprising!) roles for women, this would be super-fun to stage and perform.

  • Jennifer O'Grady: 37 Origami Bees

    Beautiful and moving. Especially in this day and age it's wonderful to read a play in which someone in authority does something kind. Thank you, Mike Byham!

    Beautiful and moving. Especially in this day and age it's wonderful to read a play in which someone in authority does something kind. Thank you, Mike Byham!

  • Jennifer O'Grady: The Incident

    It's such a testament to Lamedman's skill as a writer that this short play is a fantastic mix of absurdist comedy, gripping thriller and exploration of gender politics and women's lives. Any audience would be at the edges of their seats watching this and would also leave feeling wonderfully impacted by the surprising and uplifting ending. So, so good!

    It's such a testament to Lamedman's skill as a writer that this short play is a fantastic mix of absurdist comedy, gripping thriller and exploration of gender politics and women's lives. Any audience would be at the edges of their seats watching this and would also leave feeling wonderfully impacted by the surprising and uplifting ending. So, so good!

  • Jennifer O'Grady: The Berenstain Bearadox

    Super-fun, funny and meta-theatrical monologue about a popular children's book kicking off a parent's existential crisis. Just wonderful!

    Super-fun, funny and meta-theatrical monologue about a popular children's book kicking off a parent's existential crisis. Just wonderful!

  • Jennifer O'Grady: Photos with my Rapist: A One-Minute Monologue

    This harrowing and heartbreaking one-minute monologue about hidden familial sexual assault and trauma should be widely produced.

    This harrowing and heartbreaking one-minute monologue about hidden familial sexual assault and trauma should be widely produced.