The 3rd Annual

47:59 Play Festival

Writing in Rotation

 

 

Back again for its third year in a row, a fierce race against the clock to write, rehearse and perform six brand new plays in exactly 47 hours and 59 minutes. Each of our six playwrights will write a first act of a new work over the course of one evening. The following morning, the piece is handed off to the director and actors, who rehearse the piece for performance that evening. After the first act comes down - that’s when things get really interesting. The playwrights will then rotate and write the second act of one of their colleague’s works from the previous night.


See info & pictures from the previous years 2005 2006

 

 

THE Indoor Kids!

written by Lindsay Wolf & Michael Bottomley
directed by Michael V. Rudez
featuring Steve Smith, Anne Petersen, Zach Fletcher, & Adam David Jones

Shotgun Diplomacy

written by Taylor Shann & Averia Gaskin
directed by Joe Powell
featuring CL Weatherstone, Chuck Worthington, & Jamie Klassel

Sunset Hill Methodist Church Vacation Bible School

written by Matt Gibbon & Mark Souza
directed by Janet Zarecor
featuring Liz Bangs & Jenifer Borntrager

Macdeath

written by Michael Bottomley & Lindsay Wolf
directed by Kate Place
featuring James David Jackson & Jason Zimbler

Suburban Church Play

written by Averia Gaskin & Taylor Shann
directed by Michele Renee Pace
featuring Josh Sherman, Jessica Pollack, & Allison Walton

The Proper Way to Give a Handjob Without Lubrication

written by Mark Souza & Matt Gibbon
directed by Andy Chmelko
featuring Neimah Djourabchi, Jen Daum, & Rachel Shapiro Cooper

 

produced by Corey Ann Haydu & Michael Mraz

 

festival staff
stage manager Amanda Jane Haley
production assistants Reyna de Courcy & Evelyn Alberty
board operator Reece Nunez

 

artistic director James David Jackson
managing director Josh Sherman
production manager Joe Powell

 

Feruary 17th & 18th, 2007, 8:00pm

 

Urban Stages
259 West 30th Street
b/t 7th & 8th Avenues