Baltimore's One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) at EMP Collective

The One-Minute Play Festival and EMP Collective presented The 1st Baltimore One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 10 February at 5 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 8 p.m. EST (Baltimore).

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Featuring 50 Brand New One-Minute Plays by:
Juanita Rockwell, Mark Scharf, Rich Espey, Gwydion Suilebhan, Dominic D’Andrea, Anna Moench, Sarah Schaeffer, Caitlin Saylor Stephens, Miryam Madrigal, Liz Maestri, Ken Greller, Lola Pierson, Tim Paggi, Dina Kelberman, Chuck Green, Matthew Smith, Trevor Wilhelms, Ben Hoover, Barbara Bryan, Susan McCully, Maura Krause, Steven Krigel, Carly J Bales, Maggie Villegas, Brad Leroy Cartwright, Eric Bowers, Lowell Silverstein, and more!

Directed by:
Elissa Goetschius, Elliott Rauh, Andrew Peters, Chuck Green, Jared Margulies, Brad Leroy Cartwright

Curated by:
Dominic D’Andrea

The One-Minute Play Festival (OMPF) is an NYC- based theatre company, founded by producing artistic director Dominic D’Andrea. OMPF works in partnership with theatres sharing playwright or community-specific missions across the country. In each city, OMPF creates locally sourced playwright-focused community events, with the goal of promoting the spirit of radical inclusion by representing local cultures of 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.

OMPF works with partnering organizations to identify programs or initiatives in each community to support with the proceeds from the work. 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, teaching artists working in prisons, playwright residencies and memberships, and community arts workshops.

Founded in 2010, EMP Collective is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to producing multi-media art and art events in the newly-designated Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District. EMP is comprised of a rotating art gallery for emerging artists that doubles as a rehearsal / performance space for theatrical and musical events, experimental collaboration, workshops, and film screenings. “A hub of artistic activity” that was voted Best Arts Collective in 2012 (Baltimore CityPaper), EMP has been lauded as one of the boldest “visions to change Baltimore” (Baltimore Magazine).

About HowlRound TV

HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email [email protected], or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal/WhatsApp. View the video archive of past events.