The Phoenix Theatre Company is seeking Arizona playwrights and directors for its 24-Hour Theatre Project, which will challenge local artists to create four original short plays in a single day.
The project will take place Dec. 18-19 as part of the company’s 29th annual Richard P. Stahl Festival of New American Theatre, running Dec. 4-20.
Four playwrights and four directors will be selected in October. At 7 p.m. Dec. 18, playwrights, directors and actors will be randomly paired, with each playwright also drawing a setting and a first line of dialogue that must be incorporated into the script. Writers will then have until 7 a.m. the next morning to complete a 10- to 15-minute play. Directors and actors will rehearse and prepare the new works throughout Dec. 19 before all four are presented in a 7 p.m. public showcase that evening.
