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Gi60 UK Live Edition 2013: Sat June 8, 7.30pm Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough, Halifax

Monday, 13 May 2013

Gi60 2013 Live U.S. Announces Play Selection:

Gi60 Live US Edition is proud to announce the fifty plays selected for production at the New Workshop Theatre, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY: performances on June 7 and 8, at 8:00 pm. Tickets: $12.00 (for ticket info, please visit  http://tickets.brooklyncenter.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=34). Playwrights who attend can receive a single comp - all proceeds go to the Gi60 US/UK Collaboration Award, a student scholarship to assist undergraduate theater majors at BC. Our great thanks to everyone who submitted, and we hope to see you at the show! (UK selections will be posted soon - please keep checking this site!)

1)  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 by Aurora Stewart de Pena (Toronto, ON)
2)  The Admitted by Ruben Carbajal (Jersey City, NJ)
3)  Alien Abduction by Thomas J. Misuraca  (Tarzana, CA)
4)  And That’s That by Ron Fromstein   (Toronto, ON)
5) Art in the Afternoon (Corporate Art) by Laurel Lockhart (New York, NY)
6)  The Author by Jim MacNerland (Los Angeles, CA)
7)  The Author's Autopsy by Stacey Lane   (Miamisburg, OH)
8) Back to Work by Kevin Jones (Cardiff, Wales)
9)  Borscht by Anthony Ponzio  (Brooklyn, NY)
10)  Brass Monkeys by Clare Girvan (Exeter, UK)
11) Bully by Aurora Stewart de Pena  (Toronto, ON)
12) A Cold, Chill Night by Amy Gijsbers van Wijk  (Brooklyn, NY)
13) The Credit Card Application by David MacGregor (Howell, MI)
14) Crib Talk by Suzanne Whang (Marina Del Rey, CA)
15)  Cumulonimbus by John Levine  (Berkeley, CA)
16)  Deckchairs by Julian Kaufman  (Woodford Green, UK)
17)  Dissed  by Ivy Vale (New York, NY)
18) Financial Aid by Patrick Gabridge (Brookline, MA)
19) Fishing for Men by Dwayne Yancey (Fincastle, VA)
20) Four Thirty at the Barn by Tim Dincheon (New York, NY)
21)  For the Wrong Reason by Ekaterina Ostrova (Brooklyn, NY)
22) Harvesting Fall Tomatoes by Patrick Galbridge (Brookline, MA)
23) How You've Grown by Ceclia Rakar (Brookline, MA)
24) Info Heaven by Alex Bernstein   (Cranford, NJ)
25) Ira and Irving Adventures by Steve Ansell  (Holmfirth, UK)
26) Is Jim Dead? By Nancy Brewka-Clark  (Beverly, MA)
27) Last Chance Saloon by John Hawkhead (Yeovil, Somerset, UK)
28)  The Longest Minutes by Rosanne Manfredi  (Bayshore, NY)
29)  Love Finds a Way by Mark Harvey Levine (Pasadena, CA)
30)  A Man Alone by Enrique Acosta (Bakersfield, CA)
31)  Mirror Mirror on the Wall by Anthony Ponzio (Brooklyn, NY)
32)  My Buddy John by Meron Langsner (Boston, MA)
33)  Oh Baby! By Jennifer Provenza (Sacramento, CA)
34)  Park Bench by Suzanne Whang (Marina Del Rey, CA)
35)  Persistence Pays by Alan Jozwiak (Cincinnati, OH)
36)  Ripple Effect by Janis Butler Holm (Athens, OH)
37) The Rough with the Smooth by Terry Collins  (Harrogate, UK)
38)  The Runaway by Jiana Manning and the COVO Drama Club. Teacher: Mr. Farrell
                        (Queens, NY)
39)  The Same by Jim MacNerland (Los Angeles, CA)
40)  Sheila Showers by Tom Carrozza (New York, NY)
41)  Skin Deep by Deirdre Fleisher  (Brooklyn, NY
42)  Stage Fright by Mike Flanagan (Cortland Manor, NY)
43)  Steam Rats by Suzann Bailie  (Seattle, WA)
44)  The Thing That Rings by Michele Markarian (Cambridge, MA)
45)  Three by Ramona Floyd (New York, NY)
46)  Trip of a Lifetime by Erin Grogan (Eden, NY)
47)  Tree by Peter Hsieh (San Jose, CA)
48) The United States of Graceland by Liam Cole (Everett, WA)
49)  World War II: A Concise, Illustrated History by John J. Conley (Baltimore, MD)
50) You’re the Best Man by Schylar Westbrook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Tuesday, 9 April 2013

Ten4Ten (Gi60 Celebrates ten years of tiny plays)

CALL FOR PLAYS from UK writers


Ten4Ten
Celebrating 10yrs of Tiny Plays

To celebrate ten years of Gi60 live on the UK stage we are looking for ten one minute plays (one for each year) from British writers who have never had work performed as part of the festival


Gi60 (Gone in sixty seconds) is the world’s only International One Minute Theatre Festival and this year Gi60 celebrates ten years of tiny plays live on the UK stage. Gi60 was created by ScreamingMediaProductions artistic Director Steve Ansell in 2003 as part of the ‘Write On’ new writing festival at Harrogate Theatre, the event became international in 2004 with the assistance of Professor Rose Bonczek and the launch of Gi60 US live at Brooklyn College, New York.

Each year Gi60 premieres 100 new plays, all of which are recorded and made available on line at the Gi60 You Tube channel.

When Gi60 started, short form theatre was almost unheard of and often overlooked as no more than a gimmick. Over the years we have shown again and again that it’s a form of theatre that offers a unique opportunity for writers, actors and audiences. It seems that our efforts over the last decade have not been in vain; short form theatre is now being embraced by mainstream theatres and companies across the country.

We already have over 450 play submissions for this year’s festival but to celebrate ten years of Gi60 live on the UK Stage we are looking for ten one minute plays (one for each year) from writers in the United Kingdom that have never had their work premiered as part of Gi60. Each of the chosen ten writers will be featured on the Gi60 blog and in the Gi60 UK live festival programme as well as having their work performed as part of Gi60 UK Live at the Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough, Halifax on Saturday June 8th.

Plays can be about any subject as long as the work is totally original and the play lasts no longer than sixty seconds.

If you would like to be one of the featured writers please submit your play by email to screammedia@yahoo.com by Midnight April 30th with the subject line ‘Gi60 10.4.10’

For full terms and conditions visit the Gi60 blog www.gi60.blogspot.com

In the last decade Gi60 has premiered over 800 new plays (over 600 can be viewed on the Gi60 youtube channel) Got a minute….

(Entry to Gi60 is free and copyright remains with the author. Gi60 is open to anybody, of any age, from anywhere.)

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Monday, 1 April 2013

Submission Deadline MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!!!


Deadline for submissions: Midnight, April 1, 2013.... it's your last chance to be part of this years festival....

How To Apply:
Gi60 is open to everybody; all you need is an idea and an internet connection. Since its inception in 2003, the Gi60 festival has premiered hundreds of new pieces of work written by people of all ages and backgrounds from around the world. So If you have an idea or something to say, why not write a play?

The Rules:
• Plays must last no longer than 60 seconds
• All work must be totally original and the author's own work
• All submissions must be sent by email and must include your name, address and location before the title of your work. The title of the play should appear in the subject line of the email
• Individuals may submit as many one minute plays as they wish (one submission per email). HOWEVER, if you submit multiple entries, PLEASE SEND EACH PLAY IN A SEPARATE FILE WITH THE TITLE OF THE PLAY IN THE SUBJECT LINE.
• Entries from schools must include the name of the school and a teacher's contact details in addition to the name of the author
• All submissions must be emailed to: screammedia@yahoo.com.
Terms and conditions:
• Copyright remains with the author
• Plays will be made available for download on YouTube after the event
• Plays will only be performed as part of 'Gi60 (Gone in 60 Seconds' )
• Plays lasting longer than 60 seconds will not be considered
• The organisers reserve the right to choose the venue for performance (this means your play could be selected for performance in the UK or the USA)
• The organisers may use individual plays to promote the Gi60 festival for a period of one year after the festival
• All successful authors will be contacted prior to the event to confirm their acceptance as participants
• There is no submission fee or payment for selected plays
• The organisers reserve the right to cut scripts where necessary
Gi60 is nothing without the imagination, skills and enthusiasm of our writers and for this we thank you!!
- Performances for Gi60 2013 Live US Edition:  Friday, June 7 and Saturday June 8, 8:00 pm: New Workshop Theater at Brooklyn College
- Performance for Gi60 2013 Live UK Edition: Saturday, June 8, Viaduct Theatre: Dean Clough Mills, UK.
Watch the blog for news on live streaming for this year's event!!
- To view plays from last year and previous years, please visit the Gi60 Channel on Youtube
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Thursday, 7 March 2013

Apology


IMPORTANT APOLOGY
Hi,
please accept our apologies if you received an email from Gi60 or Steve Ansell that was spam. Our email address got hit by a hack. We have increased security and hopefully things will return to normal.

Please accept our apologies.

all the best

The Gi60 team
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Gi60 Needs your support!



Gi60 is 10yrs old this year and this has coincided with a national interest in 'small' theatre with both Sheffield Theatre's and Slung Lo running short theatre events. Gi60 is the daddy of the short play, The Glastonbury of tiny theatre but we have not been a particularly vocal force. If Gi60 is to continue and garner the recognition it and you deserve we need to spread the word. The Gi60 blogspot, facebook and especially the twitter account will be very active from now until the live shows. Please spread the word, follow us on twitter, retweet and get other to follow us as well. I would like to get a 1,000 followers by the end of march. Spread the word BIG NEWS about small plays

Follow Gi60 on twitter https://twitter.com/Gi60
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Thursday, 21 February 2013

Gi60 UK Live celebrates ten years

The big ten for the small plays

It has just occured to me that in addition to 'Ten years of tiny plays' this year will be the tenth annual UK Gi60. I would like to publically thank Vic Allen and Dee Grijak and everybody at Dean Clough for supporting Gi60 since 2009, always going above and beyond and for providing me with a creative and supportive home for the last five years.


So with that in mind let's make this one special.

Steve

2004 Gi60 Harrogate Theatre Studio, UK
2005 Gi60 Harrogate Theatre Studio, UK
2006 Gi60 Harrogate Theatre, UK
2007 Gi60 Harrogate Theatre, UK
2008 Gi60 stage@leeds, Leeds
2009 Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough Halifax, UK
2010 Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough Halifax, UK
2011 Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough Halifax, UK
2012 Crossley Gallery, Dean Clough, Halifax, UK
2013 Viaduct Theatre, Dean Clough, Halifax, UK JUNE 8th!!!!

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Gi60 2013 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

Gi60 2013 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

'Ten years of tiny plays'

Deadline for submissions: Midnight April 1st

Yes its that time of year again when we ask the collective conciousness to provide 100 tiny works of wit, wisdom and worth. This year marks ten years of tiny plays. In 2003 at the Harrogate Theatre Write On festival I produced 120 Seconds (a two minute play festival) that preceeded our beloved Gi60.

You know the rules, tell your friends, be inspired, keep it original and if you're unsure i've attached the info below.

..... What are you waiting for?

How do I apply? What are the Rules?
• All work must be totally original and the author's own work
• All submissions must be sent by email and must include your name, address and location before the title of your work
• Individuals may submit as many one minute plays as they wish (one submission per email)
• Entries from schools must include the name of the school and a teacher's contact details in addition to the name of the author
• All submissions must be emailed to: screammedia@yahoo.com

Terms & Conditions
•Gi60 is free, there is no submission fee or payment for participation
• Copyright remains with the author • Plays will be made available for download on YouTube after the event
• Plays will only be performed as part of 'Gone in 60 Seconds'
• Plays lasting longer than 60 seconds will not be considered
• The organisers reserve the right to choose the venue for performance
• The organisers may use individual plays to promote the Gi60 festival
• All successful authors will be contacted prior to the event to confirm their acceptance as participants
• The organisers reserve the right to cut scripts where necessary

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Gi60: The Full History

Gi60: a One Minute History Gi60: The One Minute Play Festival was created by Steve Ansell, artistic director of ScreamingMediaProductions in 2003. At that time Steve was the Associate Director and head of New Writing at Harrogate Theatre, North Yorkshire, UK. Steve was curating a writing festival and looking for ways to offer more opportunity for writers to have their work staged. The idea of staging a one minute play festival was actually thanks to Christopher Durang and his anthology 27 Short Plays which contains a play titled 'One Minute Play' which Durang was commissioned to write for a one minute play festival. His play actually lasts over two minutes as he found the parameters limiting. It was for this reason that the first Gi60 was actually a two minute play festival called 120 Seconds which was presented as part of the 2003 Harrogate Theatre Write On festival. 120 Seconds was a huge success with both writers and audiences and so in 2004, enthused by the reaction to 120 seconds the first 'Gone In Sixty Seconds' (Gi60) was presented. Almost 90 one minute plays were performed in two separate shows, one show for family audiences and one for more adult themed material. Once again the shows were a huge success with extra performances hastily arranged as the studio space housing the event couldn't accommodate the audience numbers.


Although the 2004 show was very successful it had become clear that a single show with fewer plays would be more manageable, however, a reduction in the number of shows would have meant less opportunities for writers. With this in mind and inspired by his own phones ability to shoot about one minute of video, Steve approached long time colleague and fellow Director Rose Burnett Bonczek at Brooklyn College in New York to see if she would host a New York One Minute Play festival under the Gi60 name and record the entire event on Video. The plan would be to each present 50 one minute plays, record them and then upload them to a website for viewing and download by writers, friends, family and the general public.


Both shows were a massive success and both were recorded. A site and domain name were purchased and software uploaded (beating the official launch of You Tube by five months). Over the years we have undergone a number of changes. The UK show moved from the Harrogate Theatre studio to the Theatres main stage and is now has its home at The Viaduct Theatre in Halifax where Steve is an associate artist. In 2008 we moved the Gi60 Archive to You Tube and the Gi60 channel has received over 20,000 hits since that time. In 2010 we hosted our first themed Gi60 as part of the Halifax Ghost Story Festival 'G(hosts)i60', this was also notable as it was the first time that both Steve and Rose had directed together and featured a cast drawn from both UK and US actors.


Gi60 is always evolving and their have been a number of things have changed since the first International Gi60 in 2005, however, the key elements that make Gi60 so distinctive, successful and emulated remain the same.



· Gi60 is open to anybody, of any age and from anywhere


· Gi60 is free to enter and there is no fee for participating


· All our cast, crew and supporters give their time voluntarily


· All plays are recorded and made available on line


· Copyright remains with the author


· Plays can be about any subject as long as they are original



We are extremely proud of the Gi60 format and the creative community of writers, performers and artists that has grown up around the event. The fact that so many other one minute festivals using the Gi60 format have sprung up in recent years is fantastic news for writers and further proof of the popularity of the one minute form and the effectiveness of the Gi60 format.