5th Annual INTAR One-Minute Play Festival to Feature Over 60 New Works by Latinx Playwrights

The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and INTAR continue their acclaimed collaboration with The 5th Annual INTAR One-Minute Play Festival, with part of the proceeds to benefit UNIT 52, INTAR's training program for emerging artists.

Following sold-out performances in more than 20 cities, this festival aims to celebrate Latinx voices and investigate the cultural zeitgeist through this exciting process.

The 5th Annual INTAR One-Minute Play Festival will take place at INTAR Theatre (500 West 52nd Street, at Tenth Avenue). Tickets will be $18 and may be purchased at www.intartheatre.org or by calling 212/352-3101.

#1MPF will feature sixty brand new One-Minute Plays by more than twenty Latinx playwrights. Artists will be working on this emerging short form to explore the relationship of the individual voice to the zeitgeistof a specific region. The writers have several weeks to complete scripts, with the only stipulation being that they can be performed in one minute.

"The OMPF has been an exciting part of our season for the past 5 years; it has proven particularly valuable for identifying new talent for our Unit52 acting program. Every year we look forward to our fantastic group of writers working with New York's newest group of young actors," said Lou Moreno, Artistic Director INTAR.

Playwrights are selected by invitation and asked to engage in #1MPF's playmaking approach. Playwrights are encouraged to write about anything they are passionate about, and, as emerging themes or ideas become apparent, the plays are grouped into "clumps" to reflect those elements. Teams of directors and actors work to stage each clump of plays.

And the result: 60 fully mounted plays, all staged with four chairs. This year's festival will feature works by established and emerging writers, including Dacyl Acevedo, Mando Alvarado, Hilary Bettis, Maggie Bofill, Matt Barbot, Oscar Cabrera, Julissa Contreras, Migdalia Cruz, Bernardo Cubria, Eddie Cardona, Virginia Grise, Oliver Jai'Sen Mayer, Julian Mesri, Marisela Orta, Matt Olmos, Martina Potratz, Carmen Rivera, Elaine Romero, Caridad Svich, Candido Triado, & Juan Villa, and more, directed by Nathanial Claridad, Dominic Colon, Estefania Fadul, Julian Mesri, Lou Moreno, Kat Yen, and more. INTAR's 5th Annual One-Minute Play Festival is curated by #1MPF Producing Director Dominic D'Andrea and #1MPF Associate Producer, Caitlin Wees.

The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) is a grass-roots community-engaged theatre festival, founded by Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D'Andrea.#1MPF is social barometer practice, which investigates local zeitgeist and narratives through dialogue, consensus building, and a performance of minute-long moments generated by each community. #1MPF works in partnership with traditional theaters, cultural institutions, and social justice institutions sharing educational, community-focused, or public service missions across the country. The aim is to create locally sourced community events, withthe goal of promoting the spirit of radical inclusion. #1MPF includes participants of different points of age, race, culture, gender, socio-economic background, and stage of career. The work attempts to reflect the values, topics, trends, styles, ideas, and big conversations that bubble up to the surface in each community.

Partnerships have been created with theaters in over 20 cities including: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New Jersey, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Boston, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Seattle, Dallas, Austin, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Anchorage, Honolulu, St. Louis, Providence, and more, with partnering institutions like Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Trinity Rep, New Georges at New York City Center, Z-Space, 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 KanGotanda, Kristoffer Diaz, Rajiv Joseph, Sam Hunter, Karen Hartman, Robert Askins, Colman Domingo, José Rivera, Craig Lucas, Mike Daisey, Greg Kotis, Michael John Garcés, & over 1400 other celebrated emerging and midcareer playwrights. For more information, visit www.oneminuteplayfestival.com.

INTAR is an organization committed to the development of "theater arts without borders." Over the past four decades, INTAR has produced classics, Latino adaptations of classics, cabarets, and 70 world premiers of plays written by Latino-Americans, including Oscar nominee Jose Rivera and Pulitzer Prize recipient Nilo Cruz. INTAR, one of the United States' longest running Latino theater producing in English, works to nurture the professional development of Latino theater artists; produce bold, innovative, artistically significant plays that reflect diverse perspectives; and, make accessible the diversity inherent in America's cultural heritage. INTAR has commissioned, developed, and produced works by more than 175 Latino writers, composers, and choreographers. It has assisted hundreds of Latino playwrights, directors, and actors in obtaining their first professional theater credits, union memberships, and reviews in English-language media. "There's scarcely a Latino artist in America who hasn't been supported or trained or produced by INTAR," according to The New York Times.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.intartheatre.org or call 212-352-3101.

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