4th Alaska One-Minute Play Festival Headed to Anchorage

The One-Minute Play Festival (1MPF) (Dominic D'Andrea, Producing Artistic Director & Caitlin Wees, Associate Producer) and Perseverance Theatre (Art Rotch, Executive Artistic Director, & Joshua Lowman, Anchorage General Manager) continue their dynamic partnership for The 4th Annual Alaska One-minute Play Festival with part of the proceeds to benefit The Alaska Native Voices Project, dedicated to serving and uplifting native Alaskan artists.

Known as a social barometer project, 1MPF invited writers from all over the state of Alaska to submit moments via the 1MPF playmaking process that are in response to current topics, trends, events, conversations, and ideas. All of the moments are presented in a singular forum of 60+ pulses or heartbeats of storytelling, that will provide a larger picture of our local and cultural zeitgeist.

"This year, we've taken the time to frame this process as an investigation of America as it is, and as we want it to be", ", says 1MPF's Dominic D'Andrea. "We're looking at American identity through the lens of the Alaskan experience, and in the tension between those two very unique identities, a lot has been bubbling up to the surface. I'm incredibly proud of this cohort of artists who have chosen to make this space about difficult conversations. I think it makes for some good theatre!"

The 4th Annual Alaska One-minute Play Festival will be presented on Sunday March 5th, and Monday March 6th, at 8:00pm. Tickets are $22.25 ($16 + 6.25 ticketing fees) and available for purchase online at alaskapac.centertix.net/eventperformances.asp?evt=1758 by calling 907-263-ARTS, or by visiting the Centertix box office.

One-minute plays by established and emerging Alaskan playwrights were commissioned for this special event, prompted by #1MPF's unique playmaking process.

The festival will feature works by: Carey Seward, Andréa Onstad, Richard Perry, Linda Billington, Joshua Lowman, Vera Starbard, Holly Stanton, Allen Bailey, Gregory Aldrich, Tom Moran, Lucas Rowley, Matt Jardin, John Parsi, Jason Hodges, Geoff Kirsch, Peter Porco, Dawson Moore, Amy O'Neill Houck, Marleah LaBelle, Ron Holmstrom, Daniels Calvin, Kyra Meyer, Mollie Ramos, Jill Bess, Matt Collins, Mara Crossett, Andrea Staats, Nathan Hall, Matthew Kress, Kelly Lee Williams, Shelly Wozniak, Paul Rios, Heath E. Robertson, & Michael Shaeffer.

Directed by Sara Christina Athans, Dawson Moore, John Parsi, Joshua Lowman, Peter Porco, Paul Rios, & more!

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.

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