The 24TH Annual
The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway

October 21, 2024 | 7 PM

Town Hall

Honoring The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals Class of 2007 

SINCE 2001, stars from Broadway, film and TV have gathered to write, rehearse and perform new plays in 24 hours. Extraordinary artists race the clock, forge enduring creative partnerships and leave everything on the stage in a singular evening of live theater. This year’s event will honor the artists of the inaugural Nationals class of 2007.

The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals began in 2007 and the artists from that class have moved through the entertainment industry, both individually and together, utilizing the skills they learned and the relationships they built during their time in the program. The inaugural class helped create a model for how creative communities can collaborate and succeed together, and this year’s The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway will honor them and all the work they’ve accomplished and inspired.

Proceeds from The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway support our non-profit activities throughout the year, including education programming with students from middle school to college, professional development for emerging artists through The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, and our partner productions all around the world. 

SCHEDULED TO PARTICIPATE

Actors scheduled to participate include Ari Graynor (“I’m Dying Up Here”), Ato Blankson-Wood (Slave Play), Avantika (Mean Girls), Brett Azar (“Young Rock”), Cat Cohen (“Only Murders in the Building”), David Burtka (“How I Met Your Mother”), David Iocono (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), David Krumholtz (Oppenheimer), Delaney Rowe (The Everything Pot), Devon Bostick (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Dylan Gelula (Smile 2), Faith Salie (“CBS News Sunday Morning”), Henri Esteve (“Grown-ish”), Ignacio Diaz-Silverio (“Primo”), Jamie Neumann (“The Deuce”), Jen Tullock (“Severance”), Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade), Larry Owens (“Abbott Elementary”), Lois Smith (The Inheritance), Margarita Levieva (“The Deuce”), Morgan Siobhan Green (Hadestown), Peggy J. Scott (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Rachel Hilson (“Love, Victor”) and Sarah Steele (“The Good Fight”).   

Writers scheduled to participate include Douglas Lyons (Chicken & Biscuits), Josh Koenigsberg (“Orange is the New Black”), Mario Correa (Dark Waters), Meredith Scardino (“Girls5eva”), Rachel Bonds (Jonah) and Steve Yockey (“The Flight Attendant”).   

Directors scheduled to participate include David Auburn (Proof), Isaac Butler (Brooklyn Babylon), Pippin Parker (Betrayed), Satya Bhabha (“Shameless”), Sherri Eden Barber (Hamilton), Victor Malana Maog (Her Portmanteau).

Special appearances by Colin Cosell (voice of the NY Mets) and Vinny DePonto (Mindplay).

BENEFIT COMMITTEE

Andrea McCardle, Anna Strout, Christy Gressman, Denise Raimi, Heather Drastal, Julie Mercer, Laura Vogel, Lindsay W. Bowen, Madelyn Paquette, Sarah Storm, Shari Soofian, and Tina Fallon.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

THE 24 HOUR PLAYS ON BROADWAY IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR AND THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE.

Past Participants

Past participants include Jennifer Aniston, Leslie Bibb, Jason Biggs, Wayne Brady, Pauline Chalamet, Anna Chlumsky, Laverne Cox, Michael Cerveris, Billy Crudup, David Cross, Alan Cumming, Hugh Dancy, Merle Dandridge, Rosario Dawson, Daveed Diggs, Peter Dinklage, Dagmara Domińczyk, Rachel Dratch, Jesse Eisenberg, Gloria Estefan, Edie Falco, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, America Ferrera, Greta Gerwig, David Harbour, Oscar Isaac, Gillian Jacobs, Anthony Mackie, Aasif Mandvi, Aimee Mann, Katherine McNamara, Eva Mendes, Adrienne Moore, Julianne Moore, Tracy Morgan, Matthew Morrison, John Mulaney, Javier Muñoz, Cynthia Nixon, Lynn Nottage, Anna Paquin, Amanda Peet, Jay Pharoah, Rosie Perez, Retta, Chris Rock, Sam Rockwell, Andre Royo, Amanda Seyfried, Michael Shannon, Wallace Shawn, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Sarah Silverman, Justice Smith, Sarah Snook, Tracie Thoms, Maura Tierney, Marisa Tomei, Nia Vardalos, Ana Villanfañe, Naomi Watts, Olivia Wilde, Vanessa Williams, Patrick Wilson and many more.

PRODUCTION HISTORY