Usman Ally, Ike Holter, Emily Schwartz to Participate in Victory Gardens’ One-Minute Play Festival

Victory Gardens Theater has announced the playwrights who will contribute to The Second Annual Chicago One-Minute Play Festival, to be offered April 15-16 in the Zacek-McVay Theater at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater. The performances will raise funds for the theater’s Fresh Squeezed series.

The event will feature nearly one hundred, one-minute plays by 50 established and emerging playwrights. Among the writers whose work will be featured are Usman Ally, Scott T. Barsotti, Aaron Carter, David Cerda, Kurt Chiang, Rachel Claff, Gloria Bond Clunie, Randall Colburn, Britteney Conner, SL Daniels, Bilal Dardai, Philip Dawkins, Lisa Dillman, Mike Ervin, Brian Golden, Idris Goodwin, Stephen Grush, Reeny Hofrichter, Ike Holter, Laura Jacqmin, Joel Drake Johnson, Nambi B. Kelley, Mickle Maher, Arlene Malinowski, Chelsea Marcantel, Riley McIIveen, Patrick B. MacLean, Megan Mercier, Jake Minton, Caitlin Montanye Parrish, Nicholas A. Patricca, David Perez, Mallory Primm, Edgar Sanchez, Emily Schwartz, Jon Steinhagen, Robert Tenges, Leean Torske, Christina Michelle Watkins, Jamila Woods, Marisa Wegrzyn, Aaron Weissman, Joe Wescott, Joe Zarrow, and Martin Zimmerman.

Directors who are slated to participate in the event, which is curated by Dominic D’Andrea, are Sydney Chatman, Keria Fromm, Jason Gerace, Sarah Gitenstein, Will Rogers, Tim Speicher, Jeffry Stanton, Jaime Totti, Jonathan Verge, and Adam Webster.

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