Posts Tagged one-minute plays
‘Priorities in Aisle 14’ produced via Zoom from Minnesota
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on April 20, 2020
The Coronavirus One-Minute Play Festival produced 625 one-minute virus-related plays over six days in April — with a different batch of plays being performed each night, via Zoom, by a different theatre. My short piece PRIORITIES IN AISLE 14 came on the final night, April 17, and was performed by students at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Jessica Yates played the main character.
Phoebe Thoroughman as a screaming customer in the toilet paper aisle.
Anna Schloerb as another screaming customer. All the students screamed at the same time — as the script called for — but these were the only two that broke through the Zoom logjam.
Video: “Picking Up Stars” in New York festival
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on October 31, 2018
In June, my one-minute play PICKING UP STARS was included in the annual Gone in 60 Seconds Festival of one-minute plays in New York. Now, the video is available.
Video from the 2018 Gone in 60 Seconds Festival in Leeds, UK
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Video on June 8, 2018
I had two pieces in the 2018 edition of the Gone in 60 Seconds Festival of one-minute plays in Leeds, Great Britain: THREE POSSUMS AT THE BAR and MERMING. The former comes up at the 42:41 mark, the latter at 57:35.
Video from the 2017 Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, the UK edition
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on June 8, 2018
I had three pieces in the 2017 edition of the Gone in 60 Seconds Festival of one-minute plays in Leeds, Great Britain: TWO SQUIRRELS ON A POWERLINE, NOBODY EVER ASKS ME and THE SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT.
Here, at last, is the video from that show.
You can find photos from my three pieces here.
Poster from “Gone in 60 Seconds Festival” in Leeds, UK
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on May 25, 2018
My name is on a show poster in the UK! I have three scripts in this year’s edition of the Gone in 60 Seconds festival of one-minute plays — two in the UK edition on May 31 and one in the New York version June 7-9. Here’s the poster for the UK show in Leeds. My shows there are MERMING and THREE POSSUMS AT A BAR. The US festival will include PICKING UP STARS.
My name in lights! Well, sorta. Ink!
Poster from “Gone In 60 Seconds” festival in UK
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on May 8, 2017
My name, well, maybe not up in lights but at least the fine print.
I have three pieces in this year’s UK edition of the Gone In 60 Seconds Festival of one-minute plays. Here are the show posters. My three pieces are NOBODY EVER ASKS ME, THE SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT and TWO SQUIRRELS ON A POWERLINE.
Another poster below: Read the rest of this entry »
Photo from my short play in Ireland
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on November 8, 2016
George Hynes in “A Chalkboard Scribbled in Blood.” Photo by Catriona Bonner.
George Hynes, again.
My one-minute play A CHALKBOARD SCRIBBLED IN BLOOD was performed Nov. 6-9 by Rabbit’s Riot Theatre in Ireland, with three shows in Slingo and one in Manorhamilton.
Here’s George Hynes in action in my very dark piece inspired by the Sandy Hook school shooting.
The theatre sent this word: “It went fantastic! Got amazing audience feedback! Thank you for writing such a moving piece!”
Video of my work in the 2016 Gone in 60 Seconds festival in New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on September 19, 2016
This year I had two pieces in the Gone in 60 Seconds festival of one-minute plays in New York.
THE BIGFOOT SIGHTING:
A MOMENT OF SILENCE:
Photos from “The Bigfoot Sighting” in New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 16, 2016
The professor is interviewed by a TV reporter.
Uh-oh!
Another view. The creature in black is likely the Loch Ness monster.
My one-act script THE BIGFOOT SIGHTING was produced in New York June 9-11 as part of the Gone in 60 Seconds Festival of one-minute plays.
A professor is interviewed by a television reporter. While the prof debunks cryptozoology, a parade of mythical species parade behind him.
That’s Jay Nickerson as the professor. Photos courtesy of Rose Bonczek.
Two short pieces to be produced in New York festival
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on May 16, 2016
Two of my short scripts will be produced in the Gone in 60 Seconds Festival of one-minute plays, which will be held June 9-11 at Brooklyn College in New York.
The scripts are the comedy THE BIGFOOT SIGHTING and the more somber A MOMENT OF SILENCE.
If you’re counting, and I am, that means already this year I’ve had (or soon will have) productions in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. I’ve been fortunate to have had scripts in this festival for several years running now.
Curiously, both of my scripts accepted this year deal with television news:
THE BIGFOOT SIGHTING
A TV reporter interviews a professor, who doubts the existence of Bigfoot, even though one is jumping around all over the stage. Cast: Three or more – one male, two or more non-gender.
A MOMENT OF SILENCE
A minister presides over a moment of silence following some tragedy. Except there is no silence, because of all the TV news crews talking. Cast: Four, all non-gender.
You can find the full list of scripts in this year’s festival here.
So far in 2016:
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