Lineup Announced for 7th Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival

By: Dec. 13, 2017
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Lineup Announced for 7th Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival

The Boston One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) returns for The 7th Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival!

The aim of this program is to get a cohort Boston based theatre-makers in the room, uphold the important themes, ideas, conversations, and dialogues that bubble up to the surface, and hold space for valuable community conversations.

The marathon evening of one-minute plays by some of Boston and New England's established and emerging playwrights and directors will be presented in two series, over four performances:

- Series A: Saturday, January 6th & Sunday, January 7th at 8pm

- Series B: Monday, January 8th & Tuesday, January 9th at 8pm

All performances will take place at Boston Playwrights' Theatre (949 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215).


The 7th Annual Boston One-Minute Play Festival will feature works by:

Series A:

Rosanna Alfaro, Beruit Balutis, Lydia Barnett-Mulligan, Lisa Burdick, Mary Conroy, Andrea Fleck Clardy, Elizabeth DuPre, Dante Flores, Peter Floyd, Melanie Garber-Letitia, Kirsten Greenidge, Marzie Ghasempour, Ginger Lazarus, Christopher Lockheardt, James McLindon, Walt McGough, Mwalim, Kevin Mullins, Tyler Monroe, Samantha Noble, Clifford Odle, Kelly Smith, Donna Sorbello, Livian Yeh

Directed by Hatem Adell, Lindsay Eagle, Josh Glenn Kayden, Hannah Pryfogle, James Peter Sotis, and Kelly Smith

Series B:

Michael Bradford, Eleanor Burgess, Fabiola Decius, Brendan Doris-Pierce, Tai Feaster, Shari Frost, Steve Faria, Jessica Foster, James Ferguson, Deirdre Girard, Patrick Gabridge Colleen Hughes, Gillian Mackay-Smith, Charlotte Meehan, Lesley Moreau, Nina Louise Morrison, Laura Neill, Payne Ratner, Karmo Sanders, Cassie M. Seinuk, Jan Soolman Noah Tobin, Jaclyn Villano, Debbie Wiess

Directed by Liz Adams, Mikey DiLoreto, Steve Faria, Stephanie LeBolt, David Marino, and Alex Smith

Curated by Dominic D'Andrea & Caitlin Wees


The One­Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) is a grass-roots community-engaged theatre festival, founded by Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D'Andrea. #1MPF is social barometer practice, which investigates local zeitgeist and narratives through dialogue, consensus building, and a performance of minute-long moments generated by each community. #1MPF works in partnership with traditional theatres, cultural institutions, and social justice institutions sharing educational, community-focused, or public service missions across the country. The aim is to create locally sourced community events, with the goal of promoting the spirit of radical inclusion. #1MPF includes participants of different points of age, race, culture, gender, socio-economic background, and stage of career. 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 20 cities including: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New Jersey, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Boston, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Seattle, Dallas, Austin, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Anchorage, Honolulu, St. Louis, Providence, and more, 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, Lydia Diamond, 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 1400 celebrated, emerging, and midcareer playwrights. For more information, visit www.oneminuteplayfestival.com.


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