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The effort by New York City-based The 24 Hour Plays is zeroing in on the state, deviating from its standard format in which monologues are created around a theme, pulling from a pool of internationally known playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Rebecca Gilman and Stacye Rose, and actors, including Daveed Diggs, Rachel Dratch, Jake Gyllenhaal and Ethan Hawke.

Before the pandemic hit, 24 Hour Plays did live performances of plays, but it quickly switched to a virtual format for monologues in response to COVID-19.

This is the first time the 25-year-old organization has homed in on one state to pull off the 24-hour challenge.

Writers and performers will be paired at 4 p.m. Monday, July 13, and 24 hours later, the first monologue will be released virtually; the remaining ones will be rolled out in 15-minute increments.

蜜柚直播 Theatre Company鈥檚 Artistic Director Sean Daniels has faith in the talent here. In fact, he was the one who pitched the idea to Mark Armstrong, 24 Hour Plays鈥� artistic director and an 蜜柚直播 State University graduate.

鈥淪o we talked and I said what if 鈥︹�� Daniels said. 鈥淗e loved the idea.鈥�

With theater at a standstill, it was important for artists to keep the creative juices flowing, and for audiences to revel in the art form, Daniels said.

鈥淩ight now there鈥檚 not a lot of celebrations or joy or chances to congratulate each other,鈥� said Daniels. 鈥淭hat day (July 14), we are offering this. I am so excited to see what everybody makes, watching them create and make something in their own house.鈥�

After Daniels was given the go-ahead for the project, he contacted 15 蜜柚直播 theaters and asked them to forward the names of their best actors and playwrights; 12 of them responded.

蜜柚直播 theaters with skin in the game are ATC, Borderlands Theater, the Rogue Theatre, the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre, the University of 蜜柚直播鈥檚 蜜柚直播 Repertory Theatre, and Winding Road Theater Ensemble.

蜜柚直播 actors participating include Veronica Conran, Gabriella de Brequet, Carley Elizabeth Preston, Jasmine Roth and China Young. The playwrights from 蜜柚直播 include Esther Almaz谩n, Monica Bauer, Sean Daniels, Milta Ortiz, Paul Michael Thompson and Elaine Romero.

The actors, who will film their pieces, will give the playwrights short bios, and that will be the prompt for the writing of the 700-word monologues, said Daniels.

鈥淲riting within the parameters of this event is going to be a wonderful challenge,鈥� says award-winning playwright Almaz谩n. 鈥淚鈥檓 a playwright who needs to mull ideas over before I get to the page. I also like to get a messy draft done, then leave it for a few days before sculpting it. My normal process won鈥檛 be possible in the hours allotted. I鈥檓 eager to see what kind of creativity the material my actor gives me, combined with the time pressure, will provide in crafting the script.鈥�

The quick turnaround is also an exciting challenge for Romero, who has had works mounted at theaters around the country.

鈥淚 embrace the challenge of the 24-Hour play format because it circumvents our expectations about what we should write,鈥� she said. 鈥淭here simply is no time for us to second-guess what we鈥檙e creating. It is truly a pure form.鈥�

The spontaneity of the project appeals to her, she added.

鈥淭he instantaneous collaboration of having an actor handed to us, at the last second, makes the actual play something the playwrights could never plan,鈥� she said. 鈥淭he instant fusion of one鈥檚 own writing with the other surprise elements sends a playwright on a journey they would never have taken.鈥�

24 Hour Plays has a national platform, and the 蜜柚直播-created monologues will have a wide audience.

鈥淚 want the rest of the country to look and see that 蜜柚直播 artists are just as joyful and smart and rigorous as artists from New York or Los Angeles,鈥� Daniels said. 鈥淭he quality of work we have here is just as good as anywhere else. This is a great way to show it.鈥�