The Dirty Blondes announce artists featured in THE COMMENTS SECTION at Theaterlab

The Dirty Blondes announce their fifth Play in a Day Festival, The Comments Section, on January 31, 2016 at THEATERLAB (357 W 36th St. 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10018) as a Guest Production.

The internet and social media have proven to be an integral part of daily communication and inform us of the news, popular culture, and the personal lives of others. As a result, anyone and everyone can easily share their opinion about any matter in the comment section. While reading through the anonymous comment boards we encounter sexism, racism, fear, bravery, loathing, body shaming, transphobic, anti-religious hate speech, and literally everything in between.

Instead of ignoring these often ignorant and sometimes upsetting comments, The Dirty Blondes will bring together playwrights, directors and actors to collaborate and create a night of seven original 10-minute plays based on selected comments from the internet. The added catch: actors, directors and playwrights have to come together to create this new work from scratch in just one day. The Dirty Blondes mission is to produce works of theater that foster the right conversation, at the right time, with the right people - and internet comments that act as the voice of the faceless many is a perfect conversation-starter.

The culminating performance will feature seven original 10-minute plays by seven outstanding writers, 21 actors, and seven directors, each centered on a specific internet comment The Dirty Blondes have chosen ahead of time.

Play in a Day Festivals by The Dirty Blondes focus on the writing and rehearsal process as an extremely fruitful, efficient development period where individual artists randomly come together to collaborate and create an unpredictable new play. The goal is to encourage artists to produce their best work possible in a very short amount of time. The final result will be a performance based on raw emotion, first instincts, and uncensored creativity.

For more information visit: http://www.thedirtyblondes.org/

The Dirty Blondes' mission is to produce theater that furthers the right conversation at the right time with the right people. Through this mission, artists are responsible for using their work to participate in a dialogue that bears on their experience and pushes the conversation further - creating stark, challenging and emotional truthful pieces of theater. Founded in Brooklyn in 2012, The Dirty Blondes have produced 15 works of new theater (and counting), featuring the talent of more than 200 artists willing to use the stage to create visually stunning and emotionally truthful pieces of theater and to highlight the importance of political and social advocacy. Winners of Overall Excellence in Playwriting at FringeNYC (2015) for THE AMERICAN PLAY, which was also extended Off-Broadway at SoHo Playhouse. Productions by The Dirty Blondes have been declared "A phenomenal, important piece of theatre" by the Fringe Review (The Tunnel Play), and "Raw, contemporary and edgy" by StageBuddy (The American Play). http://www.thedirtyblondes.org

THEATERLAB is an artistic laboratory dedicated to research into the nature of live performance. Through the development of new and experimental work, including theater, music, and visual art, THEATERLAB supports New York City's diverse community of artists as well as the general public interested in seeing emerging new work. THEATERLAB also focuses on audience development as a creative project and regards the theatrical experience as a creative public assembly with the audience as an important partner in fulfilling their mission.