How to Participate in Gi60:
To participate in any Gi60 events or activities, see
descriptions and guidelines below. If you’re interested in hosting a one minute
festival of your own using Gi60’s brand and goodwill, please contact the
directors of Gi60. Once approved, we will endeavor to support you in any way we
can by promoting your event on our website and social media pages, and we ask
that you respect the rules and guidelines as outlined below:
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That your
organization and participants commit to the core values as outlined above.
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In all
publicity, the event will be listed as being presented by
ScreamingMediaProductions in association with your organization.
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You and your
organization will use and abide by the specific Gi60 submission guidelines.
If you would
like to create a one minute festival and prefer it not be a Gi60 hosted event,
we’re happy to consult with you and offer helpful information based on our many
years of experience. We’re committed to supporting you and the success of the
one minute story, whether you’re part of a branch of Gi60 or an independent
group with your own love of one minute plays and storytelling. If you’re going it alone, that’s great and we’re
happy to help, all we ask is that you don’t use the Gi60 name or branding
without speaking to us first.
The Five Branches
of Gi60:
Gi60 International One
Minute Theatre Festival:
Now entering
its 19th year, Gi60 International is an annual festival produced in
partnership between the United States and the UK. One live event
in two locations, Leeds UK and New York City, each producing a unique set of 50
original one minute plays selected from the annual submission pool. Directed by
Gi60 founders Steve Ansell and Rose Burnett Bonczek, these live theater events
are streamed, filmed, and the plays are then uploaded to the Gi60 YouTube
Channel.
A Call for
Submissions is generally issued at the end of February/early March each year.
See the Submission Guidelines for full details
Gi60 International is always open to new partnerships around the world, and we welcome you contacting us to explore the possibilities. Once approved as a Gi60 International sanctioned event, companies adhere to the following criteria:
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Plays will be
selected from the single submission pool that all Gi60 International sites draw
from, ensuring representation of writers from the global community at all Gi60
sites. All writers – even those local to your event - need to submit their work
to the Gi60 International site, not directly to you.
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There is no
submission fee, prize or payment for Gi60 participation
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Plays that meet
the definition of ‘hate speech’ will not be considered. See description above.
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Plays may be
filmed and made available for upload to the Gi60 Channel
Originally helmed by associate artistic director Christopher Thomasson, this endeavor is temporarily on hiatus. Sadly, Christopher passed away before he could see his vision of Gi60 Radio completed, but we are endeavoring to reconstruct some of his recordings from files he left behind. Stay tuned.
Gi60 in Education:
One minute
plays are a dynamic tool in education, theatre training and performance for students
of all ages, from elementary school to college. Whether you’re teaching
literacy, creative writing, acting, directing or English as a second language,
the compact, economic nature of the one minute play, and the fact that it can
be tailored to any age, group or subject, makes it a fantastic mechanism for
discovery and learning. The format allows educators to have a project that
provides ‘equal’ performance opportunities for students, from cast size to representation
of your specific students.
We offer online and in person workshops in writing,
performing and directing short form theater, and offer resources in guiding
educational sites to create and apply the one minute play in classrooms and on
stage. Gi60 in Education offers:
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Access to over 2,000 one minute plays for students and teachers to read, review, and
choose from.
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Instruction on
writing, performing, directing and producing one minute plays in 4 chapters in One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre by Steve Ansell
and Rose Burnett Bonczek; this volume also includes an anthology of 200 one
minute plays organized thematically (universal, youth appropriate, adult theme)
as well as by cast size
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Guidance on how
to organize and produce a festival of one minute plays, no matter how limited
or abundant a school’s resources may be
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School
partnerships between the US and UK, with suggested lesson plans and programming
for teachers and students to create one minute plays that are then exchanged
with their ‘sister school’
Gi60#NextGen:
Our youth
theatre wing brings together young artists in performing and producing one
minute plays. #NextGen, now in its 6th year, is performed by actors
aged 9-17 under the supervision of trained theater teachers and artists. Plays
are selected from a specific call for submissions for #NextGen, as well as from
the annual submissions for Gi60 International.
To view past
#NextGen plays (performed by the students of Acting Out!, a private acting
conservatory), visit the Gi60 Channel on YouTube and search “Gi60 US #NextGen”.
Gi60 on Film
The pandemic of
2020/2021 prevented theatre artists from collaborating in person, so innovation
and adaptability was essential. Gi60 theatre artists created work using new
mediums, from iPhone films, to Zoom recordings to video camera. In 2020, we
selected a small number of plays from our annual submissions, filmed them, and
presented them as a collection via The Tank NYC/Cybertank and
stage@leedsDigital Theatre platforms. The popularity of this event – and the
unknown future – makes Gi60 on Film a new and welcome branch of the Gi60
family.
Though still
under discussion, the future of Gi60
on Film may include producing one minute films along with live events and Gi60
Radio, or possibly accepting submissions of original one minute plays already
filmed by independent artists.
