←Recommendations of One-Shot

Was fortunate enough to see this at the 2025 NNPN Showcase. I don't have enough characters to gush about how much I love this play so I'll just leave it at this -- one of the most powerful plays I have ever read.

“One-Shot” works as a time capsule of the long-gone independent video store, a tribute to the power of cinema, and a quietly devastating queer love story. It’s to Rosendorf’s credit that all three characters feel compassionately and thoroughly drawn. I resonated (too much) with David, whose passion and knowledge for film outweighs his drive and ability to follow through on his dreams. The ending moved me deeply, and made me wish and hope for a better world for David, Martín, and Charles.

This is one of those plays where the setting is as much a character as the living breathing people that inhabit it. This is a piece of queer history. These characters are products of trailblazers that came before them. Most of this play exists in a time where hatred runs rampant and people have to live in fear against those that don't understand them. The ending really moved me. So much has gotten better but we still have so far to go. This play needs to be produced NOW!!!!

Give this PLAY a shot! I got a chance to read this play in a diverse intergenerational reading group, and ALL of us took slightly different things from it, but we were agreed that the play is a beautiful reminder that everyone approaches life with their own unique histories, so that even when we go through the same experience, we won't see it the same way. A brilliant exploration of perspective, and how it can splinter even the most tender of relationships. Bravo, Rosendorf. Really, REALLY great work here.

For a 90s kid, this is a beautiful piece of nostalgia - and for everyone else, it feels like a period epic unfolding in a video store. This coming-out, coming-of-age teen love story tackles young love, loyalty, friendship, and LGBTQ issues with heart, depth, and humor. Florida Rep showcased this play in its 2023 PlayLab Festival.

So many ideas and questions run through this beautifully intimate piece, but the one that kept reverberating to present day--this play takes place in 1999--is what happens when the safe places we've created are no longer safe? This play is a crushing and finely wrought illustration of the difficulties of making room, especially when for those who feel they deserve some room themselves.

This play about Big Topics is told on a compellingly human scale. Kudos to Rosendorf for creating a story that resonates far beyond the walls (and windows) of this video store in then-America and into now-America, which is so different and not different at all with regard to love, race, entitlement, legality, faith, fear, and what it means to grow up here.

A heartbreakingly beautiful play about how the world and frustrations rip relationships apart. How people can want the same thing, but cannot be on the same page.

A painful, yet beautiful indictment on white fragility centered around Queer characters. Rosendorf provides with no easy answers and really highlights our country's system dilemma with white supremacy. I was challenged and uncomfortable in all the right ways.

It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Andrew Rosendorf and their play One-Shot as a finalist for our 2020 National Playwrights Conference. This particular work emerged from a highly competitive, anonymous, and multi-tiered selection process to become one of 63 finalists out of more than 1,500 submissions. This enthralling piece galvanized the hearts and theatrical imaginations of our reading teams and is fully championed by our offices. We are honored to put our enthusiastic support behind this writer and their ongoing contributions to the American Theater.