Shstrng Producions Presents One-Minute Play Festival 10/25

Presented by Shstrng Producions, the 2nd Annual One-Minute Play Festival features 90 plays, 40 actors and nine directors. Each play will be one minute in length. Curated by Dominic D'Andrea, the festival displays the talents of over forty emerging American Playwrights and will be mounted at Barrow Group Arts Center, 312 West 36th Street at 8th Avenue in New York on Saturday October 25th at 8PM and Sunday, October 26th at 2PM and 8PM. The 2008 One-Minute Play Directors include Carlos Armesto, Dylan McCullough, Kim Weild, Claire Lundberg, Dominic D'Andrea, Lou Moreno, Shelley Butler, Jacob Krueger, & Michael Gardner. A closing night party, which will feature a raffle, free drink tickets and games, will be hosted by Electric Pear Productions at the Irish Rogue, 356 W 44th St, New York, on Sunday, October 26th at 10pm.

The 2008 One-Minute Play Festival Playwrights:

-Robert Askins (Youngblood Member)
-Rachel Axler (Emmy Award Winning Writer, The Daily Show)
-Alex Beech (Primary Stages/ Intar Writers' Group)
-Susan Bernfield (Artistic Director, New Georges)
-Clay McLeod Chapman (Pumpkin Pie Show)
-Carla Ching (Ma Yi Wrtiers Group)
-Jihan Crowther (Youngblood Member/ NYTW Fellow)
-James Comtois* (Nosedive Productions)
-Emily Conbere* (Jamal Lullabies)
-Justin Deabler (Youngblood Member)
-Kristoffer Diaz (Welcome to Arroyo's, SPF)
-Bash Doran* (Living Room in Africa)
-Anton Dudley (Slag Heap, Cherry Lane)
-Bryan Dykstra (Clean Alternatives)
-Bixby Elliot (Playwright & Bolgger)
-Anna Fields (Confessions of A Rebel Debutant, pending book publication)
-Michael John Garces*(Artistic Director, Cornerstone Theatre Company)
-Sam Forman (upcoming, The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall at Theatre J in DC)
-Matthew Freeman (Blue Coyote Theatre Group)
-Graham Gordy (writer  The Love Guru w/ Mike Myers)
-Ashlin Halfnight* (Electric Pear Productions, MCC Playwrights Coalition)
-Kyle Jarrow*(Obie Award Winner)
-Rajiv Joseph* (Animals Out of Paper, 2nd Stage)
-Kobun Kaluza (recent MFA grad, Brooklyn College)
-Sibyl Kempson* (Downtown Superstar)
-Leslie Kramer (52nd St Project)
-Courtney Brooke Lauria (Youngblood Member)
-Jeff Lewonczyk (Piper McKenzie Productions)
-Victor Lodato (New Dramatists Member, SPF)
-Ross Maxwell (Partial Comfort Member)
-Cassandra Medley (Relativity at Sloan/EST)
-Liz Merriwether (Mistakes Madeline Made, Naked Angels/ Yale Rep)
-Chiori Miyagawa (New Dramatists, The Lark, NYTW, etc)
-Meghan Mostyn-Brown (LABrynth Theatre member)
-Ed Napier (Lar's Meeting of The Minds Member, EST, etc)
-Michael Sendrow (Yongblood Member)
-Saviana Stanescu (Aliens With Extrodonary Skills, Womens Project)
-Caradad Svich (12 Ophelieas)
-Ken Urban (2008 NY Theatre Person of the Year)
-Rob Urbinati (Writer/Director)
-Anna Ziegler* (BFF at DR2)
-David Zellnik (Serendib at Sloan/EST)

*denotes 2007 Alumi returning writer

The Barrow Group Arts Center is located at 312 West 36th Street at 8th Avenue. Tickets are $18.00 Tickets are available at SmartTix http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=SEC15