Recommended by Dan West

Broadcast live and world-wide, two zany hosts present a game show of global consequences as three renown contestants compete to see who gets the honor of a final exit. This darkly absurdist take of reality TV and transnational power dynamics, will leave audiences shaking in their seats - in laughter and perhaps a touch of outrage. In the end, you’ll be rooting for all three to “win”.

Toska is a true believer, fully prepared (and honored) to be sacrificed to her bloodcult’s flesh craving deity. Irik is Toska’s lover, determined to stop the proceedings. And in a gory denouement that is not for the faint of heart, all in attendance quickly learn that sometimes it requires much more than just faith to sate a god’s hunger. It takes Daniel Prillaman just 17 pages to build out a fully believable and dimensional religious mythology - and then to thoroughly horrify us with it. Well done.

The Zombie Apocalypse has arrived and the fate of humanity is left to…these three? The trio of young but virile characters in Ben Plopper’s short romantic/horror comedy are faced with pending doom, with all hope relying on their ability to get out of their own ways while they sort out the various amorous dynamics of any potential love triangle. Can they get it figure out before the zombies arrive? The future has never been so bleakly entertaining.

A fabulously multi-layered and well thought out science fiction full length that delves into AI, space-travel, humanities tendency towards destruction, and planetary ecology to explore an intriguing range of topics spanning from the intrapersonal to the inter-galactic. But in the end the question we are really being asked to answer is “what does it mean to be an individual”? This is brainfood for the stage and I challenge any forward thinking producing organization to take it on. You won’t regret it.

Do you think it’s easy being the evil mastermind behind the helm of an international criminal organization? Well as Mr Diabolicus (and the audience) learn in John Busser’s “Dr Wu Has Been Eliminated”, it’s not always fun and games - especially when you have a pair of henchmen like Henderson and Warcheski. A perfect mix of sidesplitting buffoonery and creative wordplay that will keep the laughing from lights up to fade out.

This delightful family dramedy feature three generations of one family trying to bridge a communications gap in order to plan an anniversary party. Generational values and priorities come to the fore as the characters seek to negotiate a fete that the givers long to give far more than the recipients wish to receive. A great opportunity for a team of multigenerational actors spanning from Alpha to the Silent to strut their stuff.

You ever have one of those days? You know, the kind where you lose track of your travelling partner and get trapped in a bizarre slaughterhouse dimension, only to be tormented by your split entity best friend/worst enemy and pursued by an ever hungry, yet painfully slow all-consuming demon? Well, Iggy is having one of those days - and it is incredible to witness. A marvelously theatrical, absurdist, and enthralling fever dream of a play.

Prof. O’Donnell is an important man, a renown scholar in game theory and holder of the Weston Chair of Mathematics - and he will be the first one to inform you of this. When student assistant Serena Overhoff arrives at his office door to retrieve a book that he absconded from the library with, the two engage in a battle of wile and wits to see which of will end up in possession of “Principles of Logic”. An astutely crafted and sublimely clever short play.

In Gnat Frye’s “failures in girlyear”, traditional narrative takes second seat to mood, tone, and multi-faceted dysfunctional relationship. When demi-internet-celeb puke girl (so named from the viral YouTube video she found herself featured in) returns to her collegiate stomping grounds, she is quickly absorbed into a community of comrade damaged souls (rabies girl, tape girl, job girl, etc.). But has she gotten there just in time to watch the lot of them self-destruct, or can she find a way to rescue even the most lost of them? Frye’s authorial voice is absolutely unique and always enthralling.

Divorce can be tough. Especially when she takes the cat. So what’s any self-respecting, sci fi loving, recently heartbroken fellow to do? Rent out a black box theatre and slay the heartless cat-stealer in front of a roaring audience of tens. But sometimes even the best planned “Space Spectaculars” can go awry. And when this one does, it is an absolute joy to be able to bear witness to it. The pain of emotional breakup and loss has never been so much fun.