Thirty Playwrights in Atlanta's One-Minute Play Festival #OMPF

One-Minute Play Festival & Actor’s Express presented The First Ever Atlanta One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 11 June 2012 at 5 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 7 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 8 P.M. EDT (New York) / 00:00 GMT Tues, June 12 / 1 a.m. BST (London) / 10 a.m. EST (Sydney) Tuesday 12 June 2012.

One-minute plays by over thirty established and emerging Atlanta playwrights were commissioned for this special annual event, and developed with special playmaking process.

Featuring works by:
Steve Murray, Topher Payne, Johnny Drago, Margaret Baldwin, Addae Moon, Gabrielle Fulton, Pamela Turner, Theroun Patterson, Karla Jennings, Neeley Gossett, Patricia Henritze, Steve Yockey, Lauren Gunderson, Joshua Harmon, Lee Nowell, Phillip DePoy, Eddie Levi Lee, Peter Hardy, Daryl Fazio, Hank Kimmel, Robin Seidman, Park Cofield, Greg Carraway, Nick Boretz, Amina McIntyre, Doug Graham, Laura Carson, Lisa Brathwaite, Paris Crayton III, Michael Haverty, Jon Ludwig, Vynnie Meli, and more.

And a cast of close to seventy Atlanta actors including:
Cara Mantella, Nick Faircloth, Mary Russell, Jessica De Maria, Bryan Brendle, Bryan Lee, Matt Felten, Tiffany Porter, Kylie Brown, Tommy Cox, David Crowe, Teresa Deberry, Chaz Duffy, Maia Knispel, Tony Larkin, Eliana Marianes, Paul McClain, Addae Moon, Spencer Stephens, Robert Wayne, Daniel Burnley, Vanessa Cozart, Rachel Dejulio, Dori Garziano, Chad Martin, Shelly McCook, John Stewart, Enoch King, Kori Stokes, Lee Vanwie, Allison Dragony, Chris Rushing, Jennifer Lee, Bernard Jones, Rob Mello, Katie Graham, Bennett Walton, Chad Martin, Greer Ashton, Kenneth Camp, Julissa Sabino, Chip Powell, Christian Morris , Ricardo Aponte, Josh Brook, Taryn Bryant, Kara Cantrell, Lane Carlock, Joel Coady, Danielle Deadwyler, John Doyle, Brian Harrison, Rudy Roushdi, Derrick Causey, Cody Jarrell, Lory Cox, Matt Hambrick, Boyd Gossett, Melissa Barron, Tracy Moore, Brandon Partrick , Jill Perry, Holly Stevenson, John Stanier, Daryl Lisa Fazio, Joanna C Burgess, & more!

Directed by Justin Anderson, Melissa Foulger, Jaclyn Hofmann, Melanie Long, Grant McGowen, Heidi Cline McKerley, and Ellen McQueen.

Curated by OMPF Artistic Director, Dominic D’Andrea.

The One-Minute Play Festival (OMPF) is an NYC-based theater company, founded by Dominic D’Andrea, which works in partnership with theaters who share playwright or community-specific missions across the country. OMPF creates local playwright-focused community events, using a specific playmaking process, with the goal of promoting the spirit of radical inclusion by representing the culture of playwrights of different age, gender, race culture, and points of career. OMPF attempts to reflect the theatrical landscape of local artistic communities by creating a dialogue between the collective conscious and the individual voice.

OMPF is the only major American One-Minute Play Festival, and has developed a specific methodology and ideology for one-minute playmaking and community engagement.

Notable Alums include: David Henry Hwang, Tina Howe, Neil LaBute, Rajiv Joseph, Kristoffer Diaz, Donald Margulies, Craig Lucas, Lisa Loomer, Phillip Kan Gotanda, Michael John Garces, Jason Grote, Mike Daisey, and others.

OMPF has partnered with theaters in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Brunswick, Miami, Chicago, Boston, and several remaining upcoming cities this season including Baltimore/Washington, Minneapolis and others.

Actor’s Express is a theater that challenges and reflects contemporary human experiences in an inclusive environment. We seek to jumpstart individual transformations through the shared adventure of our live performances, which range from daringly provocative to audaciously hilarious.

Actor’s Express constantly develops new talent, pushes boundaries and encourages people to question their place in the world. Our work creates emotional connections between audience and artist, catalyzing discussion on the complex issues of the contemporary human experience. We stay one step ahead of the conversation – our audiences expect to be challenged when they attend our programming.

We firmly believe the relevance and vitality of the American theater depends upon a continual infusion of new work and the nurturing of new playwrights. Playwrights are the chroniclers, critics and prophets of our times. They offer stories about the way we live, love, and sacrifice, and provide new insights into our shared humanity. Actor’s Express is committed to championing the emerging voices of the American stage.

Our primary goals are four-fold: to nurture the next generation of playwrights through workshops, readings, and full productions of new plays; to develop and nurture Atlanta’s artistic community through rigorous theatre training; to catalyze the dialogue essential to the vitality of our neighborhood and our city; and to enhance Atlanta’s reputation nationally as a thriving center for live performance.

About HowlRound TV

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