The South Florida One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) returns to the Deering Estate for its seventh year on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 12 and 13.
There will three performances, Saturday, Jan. 12, 8 p.m., and Sunday, Jan. 13, 3 and 7 p.m., at the Deering Estate’s Visitor Center Theatre, located at 16701 SW 72 Ave.
Note that performances may contain mature subject matter and reflect artists’ personal opinions.
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online or by calling 305-235-1668, ext. 233.
The seventh annual South Florida One-Minute Play Festival will feature new one-minute plays by Melissa Almaguer, Andie Arthur, Leah Barsanti, Ashley Diaz, Lucy Farrell, Jessica Farr, Rachel Finley, Sara Grant, Vanessa Garcia, Ann Gillespie, Lena Gonzalez, Chelsea Leather, Constance Moreau, Cherilyn Marrocco, Marj O’Neill-Butler, Gabs Obando, Kimberly Patterson, Elizabeth Price, Arianna Rose, Danielle Rollins, Lisset Riera, Dolores Sender, Deborah L. Sherman, Cathy Tully, Anna Victoria, Susi Westfall, Patricia Wolf, Wendy White and others.
“At this moment of political and social unrest, bringing together a community of artists to do the work that we love feels more important than ever — and we’re proud to put the voices of women identified and non-binary artists at the forefront of this conversation,” said Caitlin Wees of 1MPF.
The seventh annual South Florida One-Minute Play Festival is directed by: Ashely Diaz, Rachel Finley, Diana Lote, Constance Moreau, Lisset Riera, Danielle Rollins, Arianna Rose, and Wendy White; curated and led by 1MPF associate artistic director Cailtin Wees.
The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) is America’s largest and longest running grassroots theater company, founded by producing artistic director Dominic D’Andrea. #1MPF is a 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 theaters 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.
