- By Kitchen Theatre Company
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America's largest and longest running grassroots theatre project, THE ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL (#1MPF) is beginning a dynamic partnership with Kitchen Theatre Company and creating The First Ithaca One-Minute Play Festival. The evening of 50+ brand new one-minute plays, written by many of Ithaca's established and emerging playwrights and highlighting the zeitgeist of the local community, will play for three performances only: Saturday, July 21st at 8PM, & Sunday, July 22nd at 3PM & 7PM at Kitchen Theatre Company.
The First Ithaca One-Minute Play Festival will feature brand new one-minute plays by nearly 30 Ithaca writers, including: Michael Barakiva, Michelle Berry, Arthur Bicknell, Ted Blanchard, Sam Buggeln, Molly Burdick, Wendy Dann, Thom Dunn, Yvonne Fisher, Lesley Greene, David Guaspari, Laurel Guy, Ross Haarstad, Anne Hamilton, George Holets, Kavi Kardos, J. Robert Lennon, Mary Lorson, Kenneth McLaurin, Judith Pratt, Bob Proehl, Vanessa Reyes, George Sapio, Anthony Sidle, Saviana Stanescu, Aoise Stratford, Irving Torres, Chris Woodworth, and more.
The plays are directed by: Jake Beckhard, Lesley Greene, Kyle Haden, Evie Hammer-Lester, Rachel Hockett, Amina Omari, and Aaron Roberts.
Over three dozen actors will take on the challenge of bringing these new plays to life.
"We're so thrilled to begin this brand new partnership with the Kitchen Theatre Company and the Ithaca community," says Dominic D'Andrea, Producing Artistic Director of 1MPF. "We've always wanted to make work in upstate NY, and we've been blown away by the community's fierce commitment to the project and to each other. It makes the kind of community-engaged work that we do really special."
"I've loved being a part of the OMPF in the past and I'm so excited to be bringing it to Ithaca," says M. Bevin O'Gara, Producing Artistic Director of the Kitchen Theatre. "Getting to see what so many local writers dream up will be both entertaining and illuminating. Using the arts to bring together community and provide a deeper understanding of one another is a passion of mine, and having so many local artists participating in one project feels like such a special way to mark the one year anniversary of my move to Ithaca."
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