Recommended by Ruben Carbajal

It would be difficult to pack much more energy and intensity into a smaller space. It's a pleasure to see someone expand the boundaries of a growing form but also to deliver so fully on the promise of a concept. This would be devastating to see live.

It's astonishing the power that Rachel Luann Strayer is able to pack into a single page. It's a devastating sixty-second journey that deserves to be seen and widely shared.

Matthew's deft touch with dialogue feels almost like a stone skipping across a lake. The naturalistic feel for the situation and characters pays off with a lovely sense of the absurd. This play would knock em' dead at any 10-minute festival.

Taking a seemingly simple premise, ASTERISK KISSES offers complexity, depth and real insight into the hearts of these two extremely well-drawn characters. Everything about this play is disarming and sly, continually raising the stakes and digging deeper until you find yourself at the edge of your seat rooting for both characters to find happiness. It's a play that will stay with you long after curtain.

A lovely kaleidoscope that captures the soul of a city. Weaver has many gifts as a writer, one of them is his ability to inject so much heart into such a small space.

For as much fun and hilarity that the play delivers, there's also a lot of heart underneath. It brought to mind the Picasso quote, "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." When we only see art as either good or bad, we lose touch with a lot of the joy that art can provide. That said, Martin's play is not only very good, but it offers audiences a lot of joy.

This sharp comedy understands the matter-of-fact menace of bureaucracy. More importantly, it holds a mirror up to our nation's own descent into Theocracy, where a woman's body becomes the property of the State. This is an urgently-needed play and companies should be clamoring to produce it.

Raw, unflinching, an indictment of both our prison system, but also our system as a whole. At the center, a compelling woman who has a story to tell that's not easy to hear, but also impossible to ignore. Powerful stuff from Wyndham here.

I'm always astonished at the deep impact that can come from a one-minute play. Rachel Carnes' BROTHERS is a perfect example. It's a subtle and poignant tribute to two men devoted to empathy and peace, lost to hateful, senseless violence. Another writer might want to tackle the issue in a more direct, aggressive way (I know I have), but Carnes' piece instead gives us a real sense of what's forever lost in the aftermath of these unimaginable, now commonplace events.

Dreamlike, with beautiful flourishes of language, but also an undertow of menacing ambiguity that stays with you long after you've read it. Favorably brings to mind the early work of Edward Albee, but Weaver's work here is wholly original and deserves to come to life on stage. Outstanding!