Flash Festival

Chalk Rep hosts its fourth biennial Flash Festival, inviting 15 Los Angeles playwrights to create original 10-minute plays inspired by the space in which they are performed. This year’s Chalk Rep Flash Festival is in residence at Los Angeles’ St. John’s Cathedral, with plays written on the timely theme of Religion and Politics, performed by 15 teams of Actors and directed by 15 directors, presented on-site over three weekends. A new slate of five short plays are performed each weekend.

The writers have one month to complete the first drafts of their scripts. Once the scripts are in, the writers are assigned directors, casts are secured, and each piece is given no more than ten hours of rehearsal before it is presented to an audience.