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The 24 Hour Plays On Broadway

Broadway’s One-Night-Only extravaganza. Six plays. 24 hours. A night out with the biggest stars of stage and screen.

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THE 24 HOUR MUSICALS

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The 24 Hour Plays: Los Angeles

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The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals

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The 24 Hour Plays: Partner Productions

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THE EARLY 24: 1995 – 2001

THE STORY: The 24 Hour Plays were founded in 1995 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan with one simple vision: that a group of artists didn’t need anything other than the space and each other to make an amazing night of theater. Etc.

KEY PLAYERS: Tina Fallon, creator of The 24 Hour Plays.

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THE BIRTH OF BROADWAY: 2001 – 2015

THE STORY: On September 24, 2001, just days after the attack on the World Trade Center, luminaries of film and television gathered for the first time to perform The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway. After becoming a downtown phenomenon, Meanwhile, 2007 saw the birth of the Old Vic New Voices professional development program at The 24 Hour Plays, later rebranded in 2013 as The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals — a one-of-a-kind opportunity for early-career artists to come together, make something great, and forge relationships that last a lifetime.

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NEW LEADERSHIP: 2015 – 2019

THE STORY: In January 2015, Tina Fallon stepped down as the Founding Producer of The 24 Hour Plays, adopting a board role and handing off leadership of the company to current artistic director Mark Armstrong. This era is also marked by new partnerships, including shows benefitting The Lilly Awards and a residency for The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals at The New School. It also marks the beginning of an expanded commitment to our independent charitable mission to respond to the world, build partnerships, and form communities.

KEY PLAYERS: Mark Armstrong, the current Artistic Director of The 24 Hour Plays.

A PLAY YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN: John Mulaney as diapered boxer “Baby Onesie” in Jonathan Coulton and Aimee Mann’s Split Decision, directed by Kathleen Marshall and featuring a cameo appearance from none other than Jordan Roth! (OR: 2016 election story?)

GOING VIRAL: 2020 – 2021

THE STORY: At the onset of the global pandemic in March 2020, The 24 Hour Plays staff was stymied. How was a show built around radically coming-together going to continue operations at a time of social distancing? But shortly, Mark Armstrong, new General Manager Madelyn Paquette, and returning staff member Coleman Ray Clark had the solution: Single pieces, written by one writer, performed by one actor at home, retaining the 24-hour timeline. The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues were born. In the next three years, the program would spawn 44 cycles with more than five hundred individual monologues and scenes.

KEY PLAYERS: Madelyn Paquette, first General Manager of The 24 Hour Plays; Coleman Ray Clark, editor and pioneer of The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues.

A PLAY YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN: Any one of six separate Viral Monologues starring Hugh Dancy over the course of the program’s life. They’re still available for free viewing on YouTube!

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GROWTH MINDSET: 2022-PRESENT

THE STORY: Back from the global pandemic, The 24 Hour Plays launched into action with the triumphant return of The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, The 24 Hour Plays: Los Angeles, and The 24 Hour Musicals, as well as the expansion of company staff from two to five. It also saw a new Fifty State Strategy of partnerships and licensees, which saw a massive expansion of partner shows into communities as diverse as Little Rock, AR; Wilton, NH; and Sacramento, CA. This era also oversaw the expansion of The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals cohort to include not only writers, directors, producers and actors, but also stage managers and designers — as well as a new residency and partnership with Pace University’s Sands College of the Performing Arts.

KEY PLAYERS: Staff members Mark Armstrong, Madelyn Paquette (now Managing Director), and producers Serena Berman and Jake Beckhard.

A PLAY YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN: Patrick Wilson as Patrick Wilson The Dinosaur, chiding Mark Lynn Baker The Bird, as a meteor hurtles towards Earth in Talene Monahon’s Dino Show.

The 24 Hour Plays®

bring together creative communities to produce plays and musicals that are

written, rehearsed, and performed in 24 hours.

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Shows & Events

The 24 Hour Plays

Viral Monologues

New monologues written, rehearsed and recorded in 24 hours!

The 24 Hour Plays

Broadway Gala

Six writers, six directors and 24 actors from stage and screen come together to create six brand new plays in only 24 hours.

The 24 Hour

Musicals

Four composers, four book writers, four directors and 20 actors create four brand new musicals in only 24 hours!

The 24 Hour Plays:

Nationals

Each summer, we bring together the best young actors, directors, playwrights and producers for an intensive professional experience that culminates in their own production of The 24 Hour Plays.

Partnered & Licensed Productions

Affiliates from professional theaters, colleges, and just about everywhere in between come together for the best 24 hours of the year.

History

In October 1995, the first production of The 24 Hour Plays took place on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Inspired by Scott McCloud’s 24 hour comics (comic books composed in a single day), founder Tina Fallon saw an opportunity to bring together a community of creative artists in a time-limited experiment. The project was intended as a one-time-only event.

Over twenty years and hundreds of plays later, in addition to The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway and The 24 Hour Musicals in New York City, regular events take place in London, Los Angeles, Dublin, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Germany, Athens, Finland, Mexico City, Florence and Denmark. Through collaborations with The Lillys, Dublin Youth Theatre, Urban Arts Partnership, The Old Vic Theatre, Bennington College, Hennepin Theatre Trust, The University of Minnesota-Duluth, Cornerstone Theater Company, PlayGround, Rakastajat-teatteri, The Orchard Project, The Del Sole Foundation and others, The 24 Hour Plays have raised millions of dollars for charities.

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