The One-Minute Play Festival 2016
by ScriptWorks
Aug. 22 - Aug. 24, 2016
Monday-Wednesday
One-minute plays by 40 active Austin playwrights were commissioned for this special annual event, to examine community topics and conversations, made with #1MPF’s playmaking process.
Featuring Brand New One-Minute Plays By:
Rita Anderson, Lowell Bartholomee, Katie Bender, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, James E. Burnside, Katherine Catmull, Elizabeth Cobbe, Jenny Connell Davis, Elizabeth Doss, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Joanna Garner, Raul Garza, Aimée R. Gonzalez, Morgan Kauphusman, Kristin Harrison, Christopher J. Krejci, Lindsey Lane, Max Langert, Sarah Loucks, Allison Orr Block, Jason Rainey, Sheila Lynch Rinear, Candyce Rusk, Sarah Saltwick, Hank Schwemmer, Eva Suter, C. Denby Swanson, Adam Sweeney, Megan Tabaque, Lisa B. Thompson, Cindy Vining, Cyndi Williams, Anne Maria Wynter, Kalli Angel, Megan Thornton, & more!
Directed by Elizabeth V. Newman, Ellie McBride, Juliana Wright, Lara Toner, Linda Nenno, Patti Neff-Tiven, Stephanie Carll, Zac Thomas & Will Hollis Snider
Curated By #1MPF Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D’Andrea
The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF)
America's largest and longest running short-form theatre company in the country, founded by Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D'Andrea. #1MPF is a barometer project, which investigates the zeitgeist of different communities through dialogue and consensus building sessions and a performance of many moments. #1MPF works in partnership with theatres sharing playwright or community-specific missions across the country. #1MPF creates locally sourced playwright-focused community events, with the goal of promoting the spirit of radical inclusion by representing local cultures of playwrights of different ages, genders, races, cultures, and points of career. The work attempts to reflect the theatrical landscape of local artistic communities by creating a dialogue between the collective conscious and the individual voice.
In each city, #1MPF works with partnering organizations to identify programs or initiatives in each community to support with the proceeds from the work. The goal is to find ways to give directly back to the artists in each community. Supported programs have ranged from educational programming, youth poetry projects, teaching artists working in prisons, playwright residencies and memberships, and community arts workshops.
ScriptWorks exists to support dramatic writers by providing opportunities at all stages in the writing process—from inception through production. ScriptWorks supports the whole writer, not just isolated projects, and dedicates itself to career advancement as well as artistic growth. ScriptWorks programs encourage members to engage in the creation, development and production of their plays and provide playwrights the resources to network and promote their plays both locally and nationally. For more information visit www.scriptworks.org.
The One-Minute Play Festival 2016
by Various
ScriptWorks
August 22 - August 24, 2016
Mon Aug 22nd, Tues Aug 23rd, and Wed Aug 24th at 8 PM at Austin Playhouse
Tickets are $20 and are available on-line here.
