

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Rough Draft Festival 2026 - The 24 Hour Plays
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 22 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Experience the raw energy of New York City’s next generation of theater artists as The Artist Incubator presents a high-stakes culmination of its intensive pilot program at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Rough Draft Festival. This performance showcases a select cohort of 20 student artists from LaGuardia Community College of comprising 8 actors, 4 producers, 4 directors, and 4 playwrights, who have spent the weekend bridging the gap between community college education and the professional stage. Joined by 8 guest actors specifically for the final 24-hour sprint, these artists embrace the "radically present" approach of The 24 Hour Plays (est. 1995, Mark Armstrong, Artistic Director) to create work that is produced, written, rehearsed, and performed in a single day. By joining us, you are supporting a vital career pipeline that transforms systemic exclusion into professional opportunity, witnessing firsthand the immediate, community-building power of theater that responds to the world around us.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/rough-draft-festival-2026-the-24-hour-plays/200029793624310
- **Event Categories**: art, festivals, theatre, performances, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.lpac.nyc/upcoming-events/rdf-2026?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=brooklyn-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Brooklyn
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 45-50 Van Dam Street, New York, NY, United States, New York 11101
- **lat**: 40.67423
- **long**: -74.01211
- **full address**: 45-50 Van Dam Street, New York, NY, United States, New York 11101, 50 Van Dyke St, Brooklyn, NY 11231-1529, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (https://allevents.in/org/laguardia-performing-arts-center/22505942)

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: banner
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/fa898904050973a170ee6291fa6322281597bb8c046cd9a2c6d7d2a5d05e01af-rimg-w1200-h628-dc080808-gmir?v=1773992912
- **Alt text**: thumbnail
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/c0723b1271fce85dba344cb78d136b496531277527eed7b9e9ee58fe4b9e9efe-rimg-w300-h300-dc181818-gmir?v=1773992913

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 22 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 45-50 Van Dam Street, New York, NY, United States, New York 11101, 50 Van Dyke St, Brooklyn, NY 11231-1529, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, festivals, theatre, performances, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Rough Draft Festival 2026 - The 24 Hour Plays ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

## Structured Data (JSON-LD)

```json
[
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "Festival",
        "name": "Rough Draft Festival 2026 - The 24 Hour Plays",
        "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/fa898904050973a170ee6291fa6322281597bb8c046cd9a2c6d7d2a5d05e01af-rimg-w1200-h628-dc080808-gmir?v=1773992912",
        "startDate": "2026-03-22T19:00:00-04:00",
        "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/rough-draft-festival-2026-the-24-hour-plays/200029793624310",
        "location": {
            "@type": "Place",
            "name": "45-50 Van Dam Street, New York, NY, United States, New York 11101",
            "address": {
                "@type": "PostalAddress",
                "streetAddress": "50 Van Dyke St, Brooklyn, NY 11231-1529, United States",
                "addressLocality": "Brooklyn",
                "addressRegion": "NY",
                "addressCountry": "US"
            },
            "geo": {
                "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
                "latitude": "40.67423",
                "longitude": "-74.01211"
            }
        },
        "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode",
        "description": "Experience the raw energy of New York City’s next generation of theater artists as The Artist Incubator presents a high-stakes culmination of its intensive pilot program at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Rough Draft Festival. This performance showcases a select cohort of 20 student artists f",
        "organizer": [
            {
                "@type": "Organization",
                "name": "LaGuardia Performing Arts Center",
                "url": "https://allevents.in/org/laguardia-performing-arts-center/22505942",
                "description": "LaGuardia Performing Arts Center welcomes vibrant storytellers to create theater, music, and dance in order to inspire conversation, connection, and change within our diverse community. If you have a story, we have a home for it."
            }
        ]
    }
]
```