{"id":31953,"date":"2023-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=31953"},"modified":"2023-10-21T06:41:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T06:41:31","slug":"imcom-europe-hosts-one-page-play-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=31953","title":{"rendered":"IMCOM-Europe hosts One Page Play Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SEMBACH, Germany \u2013 U.S. Army Installation Management Command Europe’s G-9 Entertainment presented the 2023 One Page Play Festival and Theatre Skills Workshop Oct. 8-10 at the Ansbach Terrace Playhouse in Ansbach, Germany.<\/p>\n

Since 1995, Army Europe Entertainment has presented an annual theater festival to encourage\u00a0individual\u00a0and group excellence and\u00a0participation throughout the Army\u00a0and U.S. forces Europe\u00a0community theater\u00a0programs.<\/p>\n

Army Europe Entertainment staff and volunteers from Italy, Belgium and Germany gathered to participate in the festival. Professional adjudicators and workshop leaders from the U.S., the U.K. and Norway were brought in for the festival.<\/p>\n

Command Sgt. Maj. Christopher Carbonne, U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach, welcomed the participants on the opening night of the festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are really pleased to host the 28th annual Army Entertainment festival here in our hometown, USAG Ansbach,\u201d Carbonne said. \u201cI know the Ansbach Terrace Playhouse staff will do a great job for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2023 festival included a One Page Play Writing Workshop; a theater adjudication seminar; a monologue competition; a professional guest show from the U.K.; a Broadway Vocal Master Class presented by a Broadway and West End, London star; and an awards recognition ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was really an outstanding festival,\u201d said Dane Winters, IMCOM Europe Entertainment program manager. \u201cAttendance was down a little compared to previous years, but the staff and volunteers actually produced more than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victoria Hanrahan, USAG Ansbach Entertainment director and director of the Ansbach Terrace Playhouse, explained the One Page Play Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few years ago, (the Army Entertainment Staff) were exploring ways to not only train our volunteers, but to offer them a chance to really work together and collaborate,\u201d Hanrahan explained. \u201cThus, the One Page Play Festival was born.<\/p>\n

“It was a big success in two ways,\u201d Hanrahan said. \u201cThe Soldiers and their families really enjoyed the collaboration and the creativity of working with each other. On top of that, two of the brand-new plays created were considered by U.S. copyright companies for publication.\u201d<\/p>\n

Led by guest workshop leader Paul Bourne, director of Cambridge\u2019s Menagerie Theatre Company in the U.K., the entertainment staff and volunteer participants spent Saturday morning writing one-page plays. This year, staff and participants from seven military communities wrote 17 one-page plays which were fully produced – the most ever presented.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, there was so much enthusiasm,\u201d said Bourne. \u201cThere were just so many truly interesting scripts, we needed to produce all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne added, \u201cIt was a bit of a scramble to cast, direct and produce that many scrips in only two days, but it was important to showcase the talent of each participant.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After the new plays were presented, awards were presented for outstanding creativity.<\/p>\n

Three professional adjudicators selected the top three new one-page plays.<\/p>\n

First Place Best One Page Play was awarded to Nate Records from the Wiesbaden Amelia Earhart Playhouse for his script \u201cThe Box.\u201d Second Place went to Alyssa Ellis of the Ansbach Terrace Playhouse for \u201cTwo People on a Couch.\u201d The new script \u201cLiving\u201d brought Leslie Gale-Dana\u2019y from the Stuttgart Theater Center a third-place prize.<\/p>\n

The professional judges weren\u2019t the only ones to share their opinions. The audience had a chance to weigh in and select their favorites.<\/p>\n

The first place Audience Choice Award was shared in a tie between \u201cTwo People on a Couch\u201d by Alyssa Ellis, the Ansbach Terrace Playhouse, and \u201cHugs on a Train\u201d by Ryan Rigazzi of the SHAPE Performing Arts Center. Second place was awarded to Amy Ennis of the Wiesbaden Amelia Earhart Playhouse for \u201cPenne.\u201d Marissa Blake of Vicenza\u2019s Soldiers Theatre received the third-place award for her script \u201cWishes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judges also presented the \u201cOutstanding Theatrical Moment in a New One Page Play\u201d award to Jeanne Ragonese of the Sigonella Players, for her script \u201cNino.\u201d<\/p>\n

Awards were also presented in the annual festival monologue competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe monologue competition is always very popular with our performing volunteers and a crowd favorite,\u201d said Winters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, the first-place winner won one-on-one, private, video coaching with Broadway and West End performer, Phillip Hernandez,\u201d Winters said. \u201cPhillip is very successful actor and a nationally renowned acting coach. Having a chance to work with him is an incredible opportunity for one of our Army Entertainment participants.\u201d<\/p>\n

First Place monologue went to Magi Ritscher from the Ansbach Terrace Playhouse. Second place was Christine Scutt of the Stuttgart Theater Center. Third place was awarded to Jeanne Ragonese, from Sicily and the Sigonella Players.<\/p>\n

Along with the one-page play workshop, the participants also attended a seminar on theater adjudication presented by two international adjudicators.<\/p>\n

Three participants also had the opportunity to be coached by Phillip Hernandez in a video Broadway Vocal Master Class. Mallory Teufel of KMC Onstage, Zoe Stubbs of the Ansbach Terrace Playhouse, and Jeanne Ragonese of the Sigonella Players received personal coaching from Hernandez.<\/p>\n

Teufel was very enthusiastic about working with the Broadway star.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a fantastic time!\u201d she said. \u201cThe coaching I received was amazing and I got so much out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an amazing opportunity to work with such a successful performer,\u201d said Ragonese. \u201cHe really is a wonderful teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n

The festival culminated in a guest performance from the U.K. called \u201cNan, Me & Barbara Pravi.\u201d Playwright and performer, Hannah Maxwell, has been part of the Army Entertainment festival in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2021, Hannah presented her first one-woman show at our festival,\u201d said Winters. \u201cShe is a very talented performance artist, playwright and actress.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe just finished a five-star reviewed, sold-out performance of her new show at the Edinburgh Festival last August,\u201d Winters added. \u201cWe are incredibly fortunate she shares her time and talent with our staff and volunteers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The complete list of award winners, a list of new plays written, and official photos are available at www.ArmyEuropeEntertainment.com<\/a> or https:\/\/www.armymwr.com\/ArmyEuropeEntertainment\/our-entertainment-programs-and-events<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actors participate in the One Page Play Festival at USAG Ansbach. (Photo Credit: Courtesy Photo) VIEW ORIGINAL SEMBACH, Germany \u2013 U.S. Army Installation Management Command Europe’s G-9 Entertainment presented the 2023 One Page Play Festival and Theatre Skills Workshop Oct. 8-10 at the Ansbach Terrace Playhouse in Ansbach, Germany. Since 1995, Army Europe Entertainment has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31955,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31958,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31953\/revisions\/31958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}