Announcing 5th Alaska One-Minute Play Festival In Anchorage

The One-Minute Play Festival (1MPF) (Dominic D'Andrea, Producing Artistic Director & Caitlin Wees, Associate Producer) and Perseverance Theatre (Art Rotch, Executive Artistic Director) continue their dynamic partnership for The 5th Annual Alaska One-minute Play Festival with part of the proceeds to benefit The Alaska Native Voices Project, dedicated to serving and uplifting native Alaskan artists.

Known as a social barometer project, 1MPF invited writers from all over the state of Alaska to submit moments via the 1MPF playmaking process that are in response to current topics, trends, events, conversations, and ideas. All of the moments are presented in a singular forum of 50+ micro-plays that are like pulses or heartbeats of storytelling, that will provide a larger picture of our local and cultural zeitgeist.

"Hitting 5 years working with this amazing theatre community in Alaska feels like an accomplishment", says 1MPF's Dominic D'Andrea. "This year, artists from all over the state: Anchorage, Juneau, Valdez, Nome, Fairbanks, and other communities have continued their words, thoughts, and ideas. The result is that this collection of moments feels like it's casting a wider net than ever, and is a more inclusive than it's been. It feels both deepy American, and speaks to this cultural moment in Alaska." Perseverance Theatre's Anchorage General Manage, Joshua Lowman added "We're honored to help bring so many amazing theatre artist together."

The 5th Annual Alaska One-minute Play Festival will be presented on Sunday March 4th, and Monday March 5th, at 8:00pm. Tickets are $22.25 ($16 + 6.25 ticketing fees) and available for purchase online at https://tickets.centertix.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=1895 907-263-ARTS, or by visiting the Centertix box office.

One-minute plays by established and emerging Alaskan playwrights were commissioned for this special event, prompted by #1MPF's unique playmaking process.

The festival will feature works by:

Heath E. Robertson, Geoff Kirsch, Shelly Wozniak, Mara Crossett, Tom Moran, Paul Rios, Daniels Calvin, Matt Jardin, Dawson Moore, Mollie Ramos, Michael Shaeffer, Matthew Kress, Josh Lowman, Kyra Meyer, Matt Collins, Richard Perry, Andréa Onstad, Jason Hodges, Frank Henry Kaash Katasse, John Parsi, Holly Stanton, Linda Billington, Nathan Hall, Heather LaVerne, Amy O'Neill Houck, Lucas Rowley, Vera Starbard & More!

Directed by Dawson Moore, John Pasri, Josh Lowman, MaryAlice Larmi, Naomia Felix, Paul Rios, & Warren Weinstein

The One-­Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) is the country's largest grass-roots community-engaged theatre project, founded by Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D'Andrea. #1MPF is social barometer project, which investigates community zeitgeist and narratives through dialogue, consensus building, and a performance of minute-long moments generated by specific populations engaged in the work. #1MPF works in partnership with traditional theatres, cultural institutions, prisons, community centers, schools, universities, and social justice institutions sharing educational, community-focused, or public service missions across the country. The aim is to create locally sourced, radically inclusive community projects, rooted in the values and ideas of the participants. The work attempts to reflect the values, topics, trends, styles, ideas, and big conversations that bubble up to the surface in each community.

Partnerships have been created with theaters in over 35 cities including: New York, Trenton, New Brunswick, Newark, Montclair, Hoboken, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Bethesda, Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, St. Louis, Ferguson, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Anchorage, Seattle, Honolulu, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Dallas, Austin, Mexico City, and others, with partnering institutions like Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Trinity Rep, New Georges at New York City Center, Z-Space, Victory Gardens Theatre, Cornerstone Theatre Company, The Playwrights Foundation, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Actor's Express, InterAct Theatre, Mixed Blood, Walking Shadow Theatre, Passage Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Salvage Vanguard & ScriptWorks, ACT, Perseverance Theatre, Round House Theatre, Honolulu Theatre For Youth, and others.

Notable #1MPF contributors have included: David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, Neil LaBute, Tina Howe, Donald Margulies, Nilaja Sun, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Robert Schenkkan, Phillip Kan Gotanda, Kristoffer Diaz, Rajiv Joseph, Sam Hunter, Karen Hartman, Robert Askins, Colman Domingo, José Rivera, Craig Lucas, Mike Daisey, Greg Kotis, Michael John Garcés, & over to 1800 celebrated, emerging, and midcareer playwrights and at-large community members. For more information visit: www.oneminuteplayfestival.com

Perseverance Theatre's mission is to create professional theatre by and for Alaskans. We value community engagement, cross-cultural collaboration, professional rigor, and regional voice.

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