Recommended by Steven G. Martin

A fun and funny ten-minute comedy about temperaments: the fanciful, artistic, ridiculous, and (perhaps) positive up against the realistic, factual, curmudgeonly, and (perhaps) negative.

The situation is silly, the characters are wonderful foils for each other. Credit Jeff Dunne for creating a 10-minute short play that might also serve as a personality test. Do you find yourself siding more with Josey or Evan? It might tell you a bit about yourself.

Also give Dunne credit for research: Jeff shows more than a little insight into birds/poultry/farming with "The Condor Egg."

The funny, endearing, nearly perfect foils Ling-Ling and Terrence from "Black, White & Red All Over" return in this gleeful, entirely satisfying, comic follow-up adventure by Daniel Prillaman.

You know what? They're even better as Prillaman creates a terrific third character, the penguin Millie, to add a bit more conflict and another POV. Romance is in the air, as is flatulence, adventure, laugh-out-loud humor, and sly self-awareness (who knew penguins were so analytical?!).

Cheers to Prillaman for creating such fun characters, for knowing what makes them terrific, and expanding on those traits. An absolute winner of a comedy.

This 10-minute thriller pushes all the right buttons to make an audience squirm and wriggle with fear and delight.

This one-act play is plotted so well and naturally, it feels everything is fated to have happened. And that fate is deep and dark, as assumptions and paranoia turn was had been frivolous and juvenile into something threatening and disgusting.

Give Max Mondi a ton of credit for "Some Guy Masturbated in the Ocean" not only for taking the shift in tone, but also leading audiences to question, to question, to question ... and probably not know for certain.

All details are accounted for, pacing is grand, dialogue is right-on, and the end monologue is a gift to audiences.

A wonderful monologue filled with heightened action, a larger-than-life personality, and a story that builds its tension slowly at first and then with a torrent of feelings.

Scott Sickles knows how to create character -- it's in action and gesture, what is said, how it's said ("It is not me" may be my favorite line), and what isn't said. A female actor will find Suzanna so enjoyable to perform.

And Sickles' greatness at story and plot lend Suzanna even more rich depth as, frankly, "Rainy Night in a Piazza of Stone" went to a place I didn't expect.

What I especially love about "A Single F*cking Retweet" is that, at the end, Kenan and Deja have hope for the future, both the immediate- and the long-term.

Imani Vaughn-Jones has written a terrific short play for virtual platforms, complete with descriptions of on-screen action. It is meant to be performed on Facetime or Zoom, and that makes it even more enjoyable.

A genuinely laugh-out-loud, yet sharply focused on contemporary times, 10-minute comedy.

Michael Tricca upends all expectations of terrorism and terrorists in "But What Do We Do With the Plane?" The characters and their dialogue and decorum (a cost-benefit analysis?!) would feel right at home in a 19th century comedy of manners. It's juxtaposition that I've never experienced before, and it's especially pointed considering the world in which these actions are set.

Your audiences will be shocked briefly, and then they'll roar with laughter at "But What Do We Do With the Plane?"

There's a certain level of professional admiration and respect between Hades and Pluto in this one-minute installment of Monica Cross's "The Pantheon Wars" series.

This carries "The Death of Death" to a different emotional resonance than other in the series. This variety nicely shows Cross's skills as a dramatist.

War is declared with a good amount of style and taste in this first installment of a series of several one-minute plays.

Monica Cross clearly enjoys mythology, which shines through in all of her "The Pantheon Wars" series.

This one-minute play by Monica Cross shows the irony that not all of the ancient gods are equal. Tongue-in-cheek, wry, and knowing comedy/drama with lots of physical action.