Gi60 is the world's first international one minute theatre festival. Now in it's 20th year, Gi60 annually produces festivals at stage@leeds, Leeds, UK and at The Tank in NYC - each site selects and presents 50 original one minute plays in a single evening. Festivals are performed live, streamed, and later uploaded  for viewing on the Gi60 Channel on YouTube. Created in 2003 by Steve Ansell, artistic director of Screaming Media Productions  in the UK, and I joined the international collaboration in 2005 as US festival director. Gi60 celebrates new writing by students, established playwrights, and new writers, and to date Gi60 has produced over 2,000 original one minute plays. For more info, please visit  www.gi60.com, and join the Gi60 Group Facebook page. 

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Gi60 US will perform at The Tank NYC on May 15, 16, 17 and 18 at 7:00 pm, and Sunday May 19 at 3:00 pm (live streaming May 17, 18, 19) - 60 plays, 18 actors, 4 directors and 2 very brave stage managers! For tickets: https://thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/2024/5/15/gi60-international-one-minute-theatre-festival-us-20th-anniversary.  Gi60 US proceeds will go to the Christopher Thomasson and Michael Flanagan Memorial Fellowships which support emerging and early career directors/devisers to create new work at The Tank. Christopher and Mike were long time Associate Directors of Gi60, and dear friends and colleagues who are deeply missed.

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The Gi60 global community has grown to include offshoot festivals from Texas to New Zealand! Gi60 has fostered international collaborations among playwrights, directors and actors, and in 2017 Steve and Rose co-authored One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre (Routledge Press), the definitive book about this exciting, and growing, form of theatre. 

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Visit the Gi60 Channel on YouTube to see over 2,500 plays from the past 20 years of Gi60 International, Gi60 Houston and Gi60#NextGen.  https://www.youtube.com/user/gi60channel. 

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Listen to Steve Ansell and Rose Bonczek in The Tank's podcast "Tanked!" with Meghan Finn, artistic director of The Tank NYC - lively conversation about Gi60's history, and our deeply missed friends and colleagues Christopher Thomasson and Mike Flanagan. INCLUDES: 3 Gi60 Radio plays that Christopher had directed - airing for the first time! Visit Tank's home page, and scroll down for podcast recordings: https://thetanknyc.org/

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Check out my interview about Gi60 and ensemble building with George Sapio for Onstage/Offstage Apple podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/onstage-offstage/id955994429?i=1000455686416

 

And my past interview on National Public Radio's The Takeaway: https://www.wnyc.org/story/theatre-sixty-second-attention-span/

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