Press Release: Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton Takes Part in the First Washington, D.C. One-Minute Play Festival at Round House Theatre
The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and Round House Theatre presents The 1st Washington, D.C. One-Minute Play Festival. Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton joins nearly 60 DC-area playwrights in this special event. Performances run Saturday, July 12th to 14th at 8pm each night at Round House Theatre in Bethesda. Tickets are $20 and are available at roundhousetheatre.org
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.
Featuring Brand New One-Minute Plays By:
Psalmayene 24, Brett Abelman, Kathleen Akerley, Norman Allen, Randy Baker, Mario Baldessari, Jennifer Barclay, Bob Bartlett, John Becker, Joan Bellsey, Bari Biern, Martin Blank, Michael Bobbitt, Nicole Burton, Patrick Bussink, Renee Calarco, Marni Penning Coleman, Kathryn Coughlin, Jenet Dechary, Thembi Duncan, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, Rich Espy, Christine Evans, Kitty Felde, Zachary Fernebok, Patrick Flynn, D.W. Gregory, Mary Hanley, Jenn Book Haselswerdt, Paige Hernandez, Caleen S. Jennings, Nicole Jost, Ben Kingsland, Jon Klein, Jacqueline Lawton, Kristen LePine, Liz Maestri, Sabrina Mandell, Heather McDonald, Tom Minter, Danielle Mohlman, Robert Montenegro, Jennifer Nelson, Shawn Northrip, Malcolm Pelles, Mary Resing, David Robinson, Kristy Simmons, Stephen Spotswood, Adi Stein, Chris Stezin, Allyson Stokes, Gwydion Suilebhan, Anu Yadav, Laura Zam, Rick Massimo , & more!
Directed By: Randy Baker, Lee Liebskind, Kate Debelack, Jennifer Mendenhall with Michael Kramer, Ryan Maxwell, Kelsey Mesa, Joshua Morgan, Gus Heagerty, Ty Hallmark, and Marie Sproul.
Curated By: #1MPF Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D’Andrea
The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF)
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
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.
Featuring Brand New One-Minute Plays By:
Psalmayene 24, Brett Abelman, Kathleen Akerley, Norman Allen, Randy Baker, Mario Baldessari, Jennifer Barclay, Bob Bartlett, John Becker, Joan Bellsey, Bari Biern, Martin Blank, Michael Bobbitt, Nicole Burton, Patrick Bussink, Renee Calarco, Marni Penning Coleman, Kathryn Coughlin, Jenet Dechary, Thembi Duncan, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, Rich Espy, Christine Evans, Kitty Felde, Zachary Fernebok, Patrick Flynn, D.W. Gregory, Mary Hanley, Jenn Book Haselswerdt, Paige Hernandez, Caleen S. Jennings, Nicole Jost, Ben Kingsland, Jon Klein, Jacqueline Lawton, Kristen LePine, Liz Maestri, Sabrina Mandell, Heather McDonald, Tom Minter, Danielle Mohlman, Robert Montenegro, Jennifer Nelson, Shawn Northrip, Malcolm Pelles, Mary Resing, David Robinson, Kristy Simmons, Stephen Spotswood, Adi Stein, Chris Stezin, Allyson Stokes, Gwydion Suilebhan, Anu Yadav, Laura Zam, Rick Massimo , & more!
Directed By: Randy Baker, Lee Liebskind, Kate Debelack, Jennifer Mendenhall with Michael Kramer, Ryan Maxwell, Kelsey Mesa, Joshua Morgan, Gus Heagerty, Ty Hallmark, and Marie Sproul.
Curated By: #1MPF Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D’Andrea
The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF)
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
One of the largest and most acclaimed professional theater companies in the Washington, DC metro area, Round House Theatre is led by Producing Artistic Director Ryan Rilette. Based in Montgomery County, Maryland, Round House produces a dynamic lineup of performances each season at its 400-seat theater in downtown Bethesda. In addition, the company operates an education center in nearby Silver Spring and annually reaches thousands of patrons there and across the region with strong education and outreach programs. www.roundhousetheatre.org
JACQUELINE E. LAWTON was named one of 30 of the nation's leading black playwrights by Arena Stage’s American Voices New Play Institute. Her plays include: Anna K; Blood-bound and Tongue-tied; Deep Belly Beautiful;The Devil’s Sweet Water; The Hampton Years; Ira Aldridge: the African Roscius; Lions of Industry, Mothers of Invention; Love Brothers Serenade (2013 semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference), Mad Breed, Noms de Guerre. and Our Man Beverly Snow. Ms. Lawton received her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a James A. Michener Fellow. She is a 2012 TCG Young Leaders of Color award recipient and a National New Play Network (NNPN) Playwright Alumna. A member of Arena Stage's Playwrights' Arena and the Dramatist Guild of America, Ms. Lawton currently resides in D.C.