I love New Play Exchange (if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, this fact has been well-established). If you have the great fortune of knowing me personally, you also know that I am VERY COMPETITIVE. (I will CRUSH YOU INTO DUST at Monopoly ok hun?)

Which is why April is no longer the cruelest month: au contraire, thanks to NPX and the National New Play Network, April is shaping up to be -the best-.

NNPN and NPX are hosting a little play reading/recommending competition, and honey you KNOW I'm all over that. (Not to ~*~~BrAg*~~* or anything but I'm currently winning whatever nbd this is the highlight of my career.)

The Stakes: top 20 readers get a -sweet- I Heart New Plays button.

(Hi. I'm very competitive.)

In all seriousness, this is an amazing initiative to get more eyes on more incredible plays. It's so fun to see how quickly the NPX landing page is cycling through new recommendations! People are posting recs like crazy!

So here's my reading list for the first week, April 1-April 7, in literally no order at all:

• THE SEXTON AND THE SOD - A RADIO DRAMA by Rebecca Cox
• STRANGE AEONS AND FREE HOT DOGS by John Weagly
• PUMPKIN by Nate Eppler
• FUMBLEWINTER by Rachael Carnes
• AT THE BREAKAWAY by Nat Cassidy
• BONES LIKE DUST by Gina Femia
• ALLIGATORS by Sylvia Reed
• LINDSEY'S OYSTER by Tammy Ryan
• TEACH HER MY NAME by Michael Kras
• HARBOR ON SIX by Charles Gershman
• TO HISTORY/TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN - ONE: WAR/PAINT by Jaisey Bates
• ESCALATION (OR, ANOTHER CRAPPY ELEVATOR PLAY) by Rob Matsushita
• CHAMPAGNE by Thembi Duncan
• COMPLIMENTARY WIFI by Rachael Carnes
• AN ACORN by Caridad Svich
• SOME KID: A MONOLOGUE by Asher Wyndham
• MARKS OF BIRTH by Marilyn Anne Campbell
• LETTER TO MY BROTHER by Franky Gonzalez
• EVIDENCE OF THINGS UNSEEN by Katie Forgette
• IT'S SPECIAL by Claudia Haas
• ZOMBIE THOUGHTS by Jennifer Kokai and Oliver Kokai-Means
• DragON by Jessica Austgen
• TALKING POINTS by Steven Hayet
• BROKE/FIX by Gina Femia
• MAKERS by Tanuja Devi Jagernauth
• WHERE WE ARE NOW by Elana Gartner
• SHIMMERS by Lindsay Partain
• TIN NOSES by Sarah Bowden
• Sucking On Cucumbers by Guadalis Del Carmen
• Together We Are Making A Poem in Honor of Life by Dean Poynor
• Man & Wife by Emma Goldman-Sherman
• Bars and Measures by Idris Goodwin
• Ser! by Karen Anzoategui
• What You Deserve by Lindsay Partain

What are your recommendations?! What should I be reading next? Comment below hun okay byee now I've gotta go win me that button.