2015 INTAR One-Minute Play Festival Showcases Latina/o Playwrights This Weekend

The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and INTAR continue their acclaimed partnership with THE 4TH ANNUAL INTAR ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL, with part of the proceeds to benefit UNIT 52, INTAR's training program for emerging artists.

THE 4TH ANNUAL INTAR ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL will be presented for three performances only, tonight, December 5th at 8pm, tomorrow, December 6th at 2:30pm & 7:30PM, at INTAR Theatre (500 West 52nd Street, at Tenth Avenue). Tickets will be $18 and may be purchased at www.intartheatre.org or by calling 212/352-3101.

One-minute plays by over 20 established and emerging Latina/o playwrights were commissioned for this special event, prompted by #1MPF s unique playmaking process.

This year's festival will feature works by established and emerging writers, including Mando Alvarado, Matthew Barbot, Maria Alexandria Beech, Hilary Bettis, Maggie Bofill, Oscar Cabrera, Julissa Contreras, Migdalia Cruz, Georgina Escobar, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Peter Gil-Sheridan, Michael Garces, Vicki Grise, Julian Mesri, Marisol Miranda, Alfredo Narciso, Matthew Paul Olmos, Marisela Trevino Orta, Brian Otano, Martina Potratz, Carmen Rivera, Elaine Romero, Jerry Ruiz, Caridad Svich, Andrea Thome, Candido Triado, Juan Villa, & more, directed by Matthew Barbot, Rebecca Martinez, Lou Moreno, Brisa Areli Munoz, Alfredo Narciso, Jose Rivera, Candido Triado, and more. INTAR's 4th Annual One-Minute Play Festival is curated by Dominic D'Andrea & Caitlin Wees.

The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) is America's largest and longest running grass roots theatre company, founded by Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D'Andrea. #1MPF is social barometer project, which investigates the zeitgeist of different communities through dialogue, consensus building, and a performance of 50-100 short moments generated by each community. #1MPF works in partnership with theatres and/or social organizations sharing playwright, educational, or community-specific missions across the country. The aim is to create locally sourced playwright-focused community events, with the goal of promoting the spirit of radical inclusion. #1MPF represents playwrights of different age, gender, race, 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 ticket sales. The goal is to find ways give directly back to the artists in each community. Supported programs have ranged from educational programming, youth poetry projects, theatre program in prisons, playwright residencies and memberships, playwrights salaried commissions, community access projects, arts workshops, and other social and artistic initiatives.

Annual partnerships have been created with theaters in over 20 cities including: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Trenton, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Boston, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Seattle, Dallas, Austin, Indianapolis, Anchorage, Honolulu, St. Louis, and more, with partnering institutions like Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Second Stage Uptown, New Georges at New York City Center, Z-Space, A.C.T., Trinity Rep, 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.

INTAR is an organization committed to the development of "theater arts without borders." Over the past four decades, INTAR has produced classics, Latino adaptations of classics, cabarets, and 70 world premiers of plays written by Latino-Americans, including 2005 Oscar nominee Jose Rivera and Pulitzer Prize recipient Nilo Cruz. INTAR, one of the United States' longest running Latino theater producing in English, works to nurture the professional development of Latino theater artists; produce bold, innovative, artistically significant plays that reflect diverse perspectives; and, make accessible the diversity inherent in America's cultural heritage. INTAR has commissioned, developed, and produced works by more than 175 Latino writers, composers, and choreographers. It has assisted hundreds of Latino playwrights, directors, and actors in obtaining their first professional theater credits, union memberships, and reviews in English-language media. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.intartheatre.org or call 212-352-3101.