From left to proper, Nikkole Salter, Roger Q. Mason, Okieriete Onaodowan, Alex Moffat, Lilli Cooper, Julie Benko, Mamie Gummer, and Kathleen Marshall.
NEW YORK CITY: The twenty second annual 24 Hour Plays on Broadway will return for his or her first in-person efficiency for the reason that onset of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Town Hall on Nov. 21.
The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway are an intensive theatrical endeavor by which artists write, direct, and carry out six unique quick performs inside 24 hours. The artistic course of begins the night earlier than, when the actors, writers, administrators, and manufacturing workers collect for a meet and greet. With an hour to brainstorm, every participant shares a prop and costume, actors showcase their particular expertise, and share one thing they’ve at all times needed to do on stage. With this in thoughts, playwrights keep up all evening writing world-premiere quick performs. In the morning, the administrators and actors return for a fast rehearsal course of in preparation for an 8 p.m. efficiency of six new works.
“Throughout this unprecedented time, the 24-Hour Plays artistic community has grown even closer—and even larger,” stated creative director Mark Armstrong in an announcement. “Now, as we come together within the same four walls once again (and the same 24 hours), we’re ready to share what extraordinary artists can do in a single day. We’re grateful to Town Hall for helping us bring this long-standing New York City tradition to a larger audience than ever before.”
The twenty second annual celebration will function actors Justin Bartha, Julie Benko, Julia Chan, Lilli Cooper, Willa Fitzgerald, Kathryn Gallagher, River Gallo, Joel Marsh Garland, Mamie Gummer, Jin Ha, Amy Hargreaves, Rachel Hilson, Alex Moffat, Talene Monahon, Okieriete Onaodowan, and Sarah Steele; writers Mario Correa, Lily Houghton, Roger Q Mason, Michael Mitnick, Nikkole Salter, and Jonathan Marc Sherman; and administrators Jake Beckhard, Victor Malana Maog, Kathleen Marshall, and Leigh Silverman. Additional solid and artistic crew members shall be introduced within the coming weeks.
The 24-Hour Plays had been established in 1995 to convey collectively artistic communities to supply performs and musicals written, rehearsed, and carried out in 24 hours. Proceeds from the occasion help the 24 Hour Plays’ nonprofit actions all year long, together with schooling programming with college students from center college to school, skilled improvement for rising artists within the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, the free on-line sequence the 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues, and accomplice productions all world wide.
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