Ensemble Studio Theatre  (EST) has the  the lineup for the  38th Marathon of One-Act Plays, works from artists who identify as Black, Indigenous & People of Color (BIPOC). This year’s selection of eleven plays was curated by Co-Artistic Directors Mike Lew  (Teenage Dick) and  Colette Robert  (Behind the Sheet).  Ten plays will be presented across two different series from Sunday October 16, 2022, through Sunday November 13, 2022, at  EST, 545 West 52^nd St). An eleventh play,  Yan Tután, will be streamed throughout the entire four weeks in collaboration with  Perseverance Theatre  in Alaska.

The biennial Marathon of One-Act Plays has been a landmark New York theatre festival since 1977. Praised by critics and beloved by audiences, it launched an industry-wide revival of the short play form, breaking new ground by putting emerging and established writers together on one stage.  In its earliest days, the Marathon was key to sustaining the careers of writers like Horton Foote and Romulus Linney, while providing essential early opportunity for then-new voices like Christopher Durang, Richard Greenberg and Aaron Sorkin.

That mix of ages and cultures remains at the Marathon’s core, with each subsequent generation – now including Julia Cho, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Amy Herzog, Qui Nguyen, Taylor Mac, and many others – taking their turn on the festival’s Hell’s Kitchen stage. Recently  produced Marathon playwrights include Clare Barron, Leah Nanako Winkler, Anna Ziegler and Lloyd Suh. Martyna Majok was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for  Cost of Living, a play which originated in the 2015 Marathon of One-Act Plays.

Casting, creative teams, and ticketing information will be announced in September. For more info, visit EST.