ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
THREE PERFORMANCES ONLY,
SATURDAY, JAN 30th
SUNDAY, JAN 31st
MONDAY, FEB 1st
All performances at 8PM
AT THE H&R BLOCK CITY STAGE AT UNION STATION, 30 WEST PERSHING, KCMO 64108
TICKETS ON SALE HERE!
Featuring Brand New One-Minute Plays by:
Andrew Hagerty, Brian Buntin, Brian Moses, Brother John, Charlie Wietcamp, Coleman Crenshaw, Darren Canady, Ellen Kirk, Emma Carter, Frank Higgins, Heidi Van, Jose Faus, Keion Jackson, Kevin King, Lindsay Adams, Michelle T. Johnson, Natalie Licardello, Nathan Louis Jackson, Peregrine Honig, Pete Bakely, Prisca Jabet Kendagor, Rasheedat "Ras" Badejo, Ric Averill, Ry Kincaid, Teresa Leggard, Vanessa Severo, Vi Tran, Vicki Vodrey, Victor Wishna, & W Averill
Directed by:
Heidi Van, Kate Gilchrist, Ian Crawford, Elizabeth Bettendorf Bowman, Andi Meyer, Sidonie Garrett, Matt Rapport, and Bess Wallerstein
Curated & Created by:
Dominic D’Andrea
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
