A is For to Present ONE ACT Play Festival at Playwrights Horizons
The festival will take place on Thursday, June 26th.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz May. 28, 2025
A is For will present their 2025 all it takes is ONE ACT Play Festival will be on Thursday, June 26th at Playwrights Horizons in NYC.
The Festival will feature readings of the winning plays from A is For's 2024 Playwriting Contest.
The A is For Playwriting Contest and all it takes is ONE ACT Festival engages playwrights who are passionate about abortion and reproductive justice, and offers audiences the opportunity to see those stories represented on stage.
All proceeds from this year's ONE ACT Festival will go directly to A is For's Beneficiary Program that provides unrestricted, critical funds to abortion funds and reproductive justice organizations across the country.
Winning Plays:
3rd Place: Safe House by Kendall Grenolds
At a safe house in New Mexico, people come and go as they cross state lines to get reproductive care. When a new arrival's past is revealed, the entire house is jeopardized as a brutal question is asked: how much responsibility must we take for laws we didn't pass?
2nd Place: All the Things She Never Said by Sophie Goldstein
In present day Los Angeles, sisters Lupita and Mari are cleaning out the house of their recently deceased mother, Monse. As they go through boxes, they discover that she was part of the Madrigal 10. A group of Latina women who sued the LA County Medical Center back in 1978 for committing forced sterilization.
1st Place: Getting Attached by A.M. Palson
Max has traveled for miles to see the octopuses at a small marine lab in Florida, only to find that one of the octopuses has died. Sara, a lab technician, tries to explain that it's natural and beautiful for female octopuses to die after laying their eggs. Max isn't buying it. Together, the duo navigates questions of motherhood, biology, and gender through their mutual love and fascination with octopuses. Above all, Getting Attached explores feelings of biological betrayal and the human need for care.
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