Recommended by Jennifer O'Grady

I love that this bittersweet monologue is spoken by a lobster, a character Lawing has made utterly convincing as well as relatable, and explores with great skill and delicacy larger societal issues asl well. So well done!

Such a fun monologue from the POV of Cinderella's prince, who just wants to meet a cool girl who isn't "giggly" at the ball his royal parents have forced him to attend. An especially terrific piece for a young performer!

Carbajal's amazing one-minute monologue ingeniously and brilliantly utilizes found material--in this case, top Google search questions--to convey the existential crisis of our times. Fantastic!

Haas's one-minute play about being told by some random male stranger on the street to "smile," a situation so many women have endured, has an absolutely wonderful reversal that left me smiling. Loved it!

Martin's powerful and haunting monologue about a crisis of faith conveys so much in its brief sixty seconds and is especially relevant for our time. Fantastic for college-age actors or older.

Hilder’s short play is a witty and thoughtful exploration of marriage and the lengths we sometimes go to in order to “fix” what might not actually be broken. I love that these truthful characters were written for older actors. I also love the stage directions, which provide so much to collaborators. I felt happy at the end for the two main characters then had to remind myself that they're characters in a play, which says so much about the skill of the playwright. Would love to see this staged!

Soucy's short play is a terrific noir mystery/thriller with some fantastic surprise twists and an ending that made me shiver (in the best possible way!) and provides much food for thought given the state of our world today. So well done!

This is so charming and poetic and uplifting as well as wonderfully theatrical! I also love the moments of sly humor throughout!

Cathro is such a master of subtext, as in this short play about a troubled relationship, the difficulty of communicating, and a rather desperate attempt by one of the characters to try to make things better. Powerful and moving.

It’s so lonely being Queen! Khanna has written a hilarious take on a queen bee’s search for her mate in a world in which the candidates are anything but promising. With four super-fun roles and some terrific physical comedy, this would be a blast to perform and would be a treat for audiences too.