Gi60 is the world's first international one minute theatre festival. After our 20th anniversary in 2024, founder Steve Ansell and I stepped back from producing the annual Gi60 US and Gi60 UK festivals.  However, we're thrilled to welcome the newest member of the Gi60 family, Gi60 NYC - comprised of many veterans of Gi60 US - performing their first festival October 15-18, 2025 at The Tank NYC. Joining Gi60 Houston, Gi60 NYC will produce live festivals annually, and will also live stream and film plays for later upload to the Gi60 YouTube Channel. 

 

Gi60 was created in 2003 by Steve Ansell, artistic director of Screaming Media Productions  in the UK; 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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Ticket proceeds from Gi60 US created the Christopher Thomasson and Michael Flanagan Directing Fellowships at The Tank. These fellowships are given annually to 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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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.  Gi60 International's mission is to support tiny theatre around the world, and we serve as a shared resource and support system for playwrights, schools and festivals that are focused on the one minute play form. 

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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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