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INTAR’s 3rd Annual One-Minute Play Festival To Feature World Premieres From Jose Rivera, Caridad Svich, Kristoffer Diaz, Oliver Mayer, Edwin Sanchez, and More

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 01:36 pm EST 11/13/14

INTAR’s 3rd Annual One-Minute Play Festival To Feature World Premieres From Jose Rivera, Caridad Svich, Kristoffer Diaz, Oliver Mayer, Edwin Sanchez, and More Presented by The One-Minute Play Festival and INTAR Three Performances Only Saturday, November 22nd at 8pm & Sunday November 23rd at 3pm & 7pm At INTAR Theatre 500 West 52nd Street/4th Floor The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) (Dominic D’Andrea, Producing Artistic Director) and INTAR (Lou Moreno, Artistic Director; John McCormack, Executive Director) continue their acclaimed partnership with The 3rd Annual One-Minute Play Festival, with part of the proceeds to benefit UNIT 52, INTAR’s training program for emerging artists. INTAR’s 3rd Annual One-Minute Play Festival will be presented for three performances only, Saturday, November 22nd at 8PM and Sunday, November 23rd at 3PM & 7PM, at INTAR Theatre (500 West 52nd Street, at Tenth Avenue). Tickets will be $20 and may be purchased at www.intartheatre.org or by calling 212/352-3101. One-minute plays by over 20 established and emerging Latina/o playwrights were commissioned for this special event, prompted by #1MPF s unique playmaking process. This year’s festival will feature works by established and emerging writers, including Jose Rivera, Kristoffer Diaz, Caridad Svich, Matthew Paul Olmos, Peter Gil-Sheridan, Matt Barbot, Julian Mesri, Mando Alvarado, Vicki Grise, Alejandro Morales, Oliver Mayer, Elaine Avlia, Candido Tirado, Edwin Sanchez, Maggie Bofill, Julissa Contreras, Brian Otano, Marisol Miranda, Marisela Treveno Orta, Cecilia Copeland, Flor De Liz Perez, Carmen Rivera, Lily Padilla and more, directed by Dominic Antonio D’Andrea, Rebecca Martinez, Candido Tirado, Alfredo Narciso, and Bobby Moreno. 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 a barometer project, which investigates different communities through dialogue, 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 zeitgeist 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. 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, Honolulu, Cincinnati, 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, Walking Shadow, Know Theatre, Passage Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Kitchen Dog, Salvage Vanguard, ScriptWorks, ACT, Perseverance Theatre, and others. Previous 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, and close to 800 celebrated emerging, and established 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 2005 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

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