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Monday, January 6, 2014

#1MPF & PASSAGE THEATRE PRESENT 4TH ANNUAL NJ ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL

ompf-1314THE 4th ANNUAL NEW JERSEY
ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL

WHEN: SATURDAY, JAN 18, at 8:00 PM & SUNDAY, JAN 19, at 8:00 PM (The performance on Sunday, Jan 19, at 8:00 PM will be livestreamed on Howlround.com’s HowlroundTV at livestream.com/newplay)
WHERE:
PASSAGE THEATRE@ the Mill Hill Playhouse, 205 E Front Street , Trenton, NJ
TICKETS: $20 and available for purchase at www.passagetheatre.org or by calling 609.392.0766
www.oneminuteplayfestival.com

PLAYS BY KJ SANCHEZ, CHISA HUTCHINSON, BEN CLAWSON, DAVID LEE WHITE, JIM CHRISTY, & NEARLY 30 NJ AREA PLAYWRIGHTS!

The One-Minute Play Festival (Dominic D’Andrea, Producing Artistic Director) and Passage Theatre (David Lee White, Associate Artistic Director, Director of the Passage Play Lab) continue their dynamic partnership with the The 4th Annual New Jersey One-Minute Play Festival, with part of the proceeds to benefit Passage’s artist residency programming.

One-minute plays by nearly 30 established and emerging New Jersey area playwrights were commissioned for this special event, prompted by #1MPF’s unique playmaking process. This year’s festival will feature works by Lynne Elson, Hope Gatto, David Lee White, Jim Christy, Jacqueline Goldfinger, Ian August, Barry Putt, Stan Werse, Sonya Aronowitz, Jessica Bedford, Clare Drobot, Chisa Hutchinson, Joe Parzycki, Dano Madden, Nicole Pandolfo, Benjamin Marshall, Christine J Schmidt, Amy Witting, KJ Sanchez, Dania Ramos, Ben Clawson, Stephen Hiltner, Angela Kariotis, David Hilder, Michele Aldin Kushner, Chris Cragin-Day & Ian Murphy.

Directed by David Lee White, Nick Anselmo, Steve Gaissert, Trent Blanton, & Artem Yatsunov.

The One-­Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) America’s largest and longest running short-form theatre company in the country, founded by Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D’Andrea . #1MPF is barometer project, which investigates the zeitgeist of different communities through dialogue and consensus building sessions and a performance of many moments. #1MPF works in partnership with theatres sharing playwright or community-specific missions across the country. #1MPF 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.

In each city, #1MPF 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.

Annual partnerships have been created with theaters in close to 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, and more, with partnering institutions like Primary Stages, Victory Gardens Theatre, Cornerstone Theatre Company, The Playwrights Foundation, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Actor’s Express, InterAct Theatre, Mixed Blood, Passage Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Kitchen Dog, Salvage Vanguard, ScriptWorks, ACT, Perseverance Theatre, and others.

Notable #1MPF contributors have included: David Henry Hwang, Neil LaBute, Tina Howe, Donald Margulies, Nilaja Sun, Lydia Diamond, Phillip Kan Gotanda, Kristoffer Diaz, Rajiv Joseph, Sam Hunter, Karen Hartman, José Rivera, Craig Lucas, Mike Daisey, Greg Kotis, Michael John Garcés, & close to 600 famous, emerging, and midcareer playwrights. For more information visit: www.oneminuteplayfestival.com

Passage Theatre: Passage Theatre develops and produces boundary pushing and stylistically adventurous new works for the theatre that entertain and challenge a diverse audience. Their aims: Values works that testify to the resilience of the human spirit. Strengthens and supports our artists. Empowers youth and families in the local community through our State Street Project. Contributes to the cultural and economic vitality of Trenton. www.passagetheatre.org