Tisch Drama and Dramatic Writing students gather in the Iris Cantor Theater to participate in the 24-Hour Play Festival.
On Sept. 8, some 350 first-year Tisch Drama and Dramatic Writing students gathered in the Iris Cantor Theater to launch the annual 24-Hour Play Festival. The festival, which teams Drama and Dramatic Writing students to write, rehearse, and present a new ten-minute play over a single day, introduces incoming students to each other and welcomes them to the Tisch Community. Each play has a cast of actors, a director, and a playwright.
The Iris Cantor Theater was the perfect venue for this year’s kick-off with a record-breaking registration. The venue enabled students and producers to plan their collaboratiions in a single space before writers went home to write.
The next day thirty-seven new plays were rehearsed and presented across seven performance spaces at Tisch. "I found the energy to be ecstatic as we packed people in," said Daniel Spector, Director of The Classical Studio at Tisch Drama and a festival producer.
At the end of the festial students shared contact information with each other—launching prospects for future collaborations.
