We are now accepting submissions for: Mind The Art Shorts Festival

Celebrating the creative forces behind short plays, films, & musicals

April 18th – May 8th @ Center Stage, NY (48 West 21st Street)

If you have a short film, short play, or short musical, then submit your work and be a part of this incredible festival. Your piece will have two showcasing opportunities and a chance to win one of the following prizes!

Winner of Best Short Film will receive:

$250 Cash Prize & A Festival Distribution Package!

A Festival Distribution Package is an opportunity for the winners to have their short film submitted to film festivals around the world. Mind The Art Entertainment will, at our expense, create an individual custom-made package for your film to showcase it internationally. Under the guidance of our Filmmaking and Production Divisions, your film will undergo a year-long development and marketing analysis and will be submitted to film festivals around the world that are suited to your film. You will also be granted the opportunity to work with our Filmmaking Division and attend networking events, screenings, and industry gatherings.

Winner of Best Short Play or Musical will receive:

$250 Cash Prize & A Production Development Package!

A Production Development Package is a producing opportunity in which Mind The Art Entertainment will take a full-length play or musical by the winning playwright and begin a series of intensive workshops to refine it en route to constructing a full-scale production. The ultimate goal is to produce the piece within the next year in a theater in NYC for a three week run with a fully professional creative team. The winner of this package need not already have full length material written but can develop a piece from scratch with Mind The Art Entertainment.

How do I apply?

It's easy! You can apply online or by mail, and the submission fee is only $20. We are looking for short material that can be easily showcased. If you are selected to participate in either the film or theater segments of the festival, you will be given two public screenings/performances. It is important to note that we are not producing the short play or musical for you; rather, you will get 2 time slots, and it will be up to you to present your material as best as possible. You will be given a tech time slot before your performances to set and rehearse simple cues in the performance space. We are seeking material that is innovative, original, highly creative, and rich in artistry. The winners will join our ranks as resident artists of the company as we develop their projects over the coming year. Films will be showcased between April 18th and May 1st. Theatrical pieces will be showcased between April 29th and May 8th.​

For Film, the online deadline is April 8th at 11:59pm. First, pay your submission fee of $20 at www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Festivals.html. Then email a link to your movie to projects@mindtheartentertainment.com with your contact info and the billing name you used to pay your submission fee. Do not include trailers, cover letters, resumes, long bios, production stills, etc. Only include the link to your film, your contact info, and the name used for billing so we can verify payment. Anything else will not be considered. We are looking at the artistry of the submitted film and that film alone.

For Theater (Play or Musical), the online deadline is April 8th at 11:59pm. First, pay your submission fee of $20 at www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Festivals.html. Then email a script (for musicals please also include at least one song) to projects@mindtheartentertainment.com with your contact info and the billing name you used to pay your submission fee. Do not include posters, cover letters, resumes, long bios, production stills, etc. Only include the script (and at least one song, recorded or sheet music, for musicals), your contact info, and the name used for billing so we can verify payment. Anything else will not be considered.

If you do not have a link to your film online or your script or music isn’t available online, please pay your submission fee online and then mail a DVD of your film or for theater a hard copy of your script (and a CD or sheet music of at least one song for musicals), along with your contact info and the billing name used to pay your submission fee, postmarked no later than April 6th, to: Christian De Gré / Mind The Art, 346 Gates Avenue #C2, Brooklyn, NY 11216.

That's it! We will email you a confirmation of your submission, and the participants of the festival will be announced on our website and Facebook page on April 11th.

Once accepted into the festival, 5 finalists will be selected in each category (Film & Theater). These will be chosen based on an audience ballot. The grand prize winner in each category will be chosen by the Board of Mind The Art Entertainment and a panel of industry professionals. Be a part of this festival and enter for the chance to have your work showcased! Get your work out there for people to see!

Win this festival and you will not only join our ranks as a Resident Artist, but will also have your work developed, marketed, produced, and supported by an award-winning production company!

For more info or to Apply please go to:

www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Festivals.html

For an example of our work come see Mind The Art’s acclaimed production of The Timing of a Day, playing April 1^st-17^th at Center Stage, NY. Tickets at www.mindtheartentertainment.com

The Timing of a Day Gala!

We're currently offering a buy-one-get-one deal for Gala tickets- email studios@mindtheartentertainment.com with the subject line PROMOGALA to take advantage of this great price!

The Timing of a Day, the award-winning 2010 Fringe Festival production written by Owen Panettieri and directed by Joey Brenneman, will be presented by Mind The Art Entertainment in association with Intimation Productions at Center Stage NY for 18-performances engagement fromMarch 30 through April 17 2011. The cast includes (in alphabetical order): Justin Anselmi, Miguel Govea, Nik Kourtis and R. Elizabeth Woodard. All, except Govea, were in the Fringe production.

The engagement will begin with a Benefit Gala on Wednesday, March 30 at 8 PM which will include a Talk Back with the playwright, director and cast, moderated by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Broadway's In the Heights), and a cocktail reception following the performance. The Opening night Benefit tickets are $100.

To reserve Benefit tickets, visit studios@mindtheartentertainment.com or make a $100 tax deductible contribution at https://www.fracturedatlas.org/s/campaign/253 (in the "contribute" section).

Following a Press Preview on Thursday, March 31, at 8 PM, regular performances will take place Friday, April 2 through Sunday, April 17 as follows: Wed – Fri at 8 PM; Sat at 2 PM & 8 PM; and Sun at 3 PM. Tickets: $18 in advance ½ $20 at the door ½$13 Students. To purchase tickets forThe Timing of a Day and to learn more about the play and other Mind The Art Entertainment productions, projects, and divisions, please visitwww.MindTheArtEntertainment.com.

The Timing of the Day follows three New York City roommates who share a loving (if cramped) Harlem apartment and a similarly loving (if cramped) triangular friendship. As the play opens, the three find themselves navigating the regular ups and downs of city life, and the unpleasant question of where their adult lives are taking them, when an unforeseeable tragedy rips them from the ordinary and changes the course of their lives and friendships forever. What follows is the reshuffled story of their time living together viewed over the course of a single day. Slices of their future, present, and past weave together in new ways, illustrating what it is that really draws these three people together, as well as what pulls them apart. While examining life, love, and loss from one sunrise to the next, each individual is forced to question if there really is such a thing as “perfect timing” or if all timing is just perfectly flawed.

Mind The Art Entertainment is a New York City based collaborative arts & entertainment company whose mission is to promote, enhance, workshop, and produce new work and talent in the arts. It is a company firm on the belief that the modern arts, in all their varieties, should be used not just to entertain but also to inspire, teach, reach out, and enhance their own art forms.

Winner Announced!

The judges voted on the Top 5 People's Choice Finalists for the Timing of a Day Haiku Contest, and a winner has been selected!

Winner- Vincent Marano
She takes the covers
So gently during the night
I hardly feel cold.

The remaining finalists in random order:

Honorable Mention #1- Shawn Barnes
This is a haiku
It's written by me for you
...and I'm moving out.

Honorable Mention #2- Hillary Browne
I know your back bends
I know your sigh translations
Every hair, breath, bone

Honorable Mention #3- Harry Barandes
she's talking to me
i barely pay attention
in bed our toes touch

Honorable Mention #4- Caley Vickerman
bright cereal bowls,
left-open-drawers, fresh earth scent
phantom trail of you.

Thank you to all who participated! Don't forget to visit: www.mindtheartentertainment.com to get your tickets to The Timing of A Day or visit our IndieGoGo page to support this fantastic show!

Support Indie Theatre!

The Timing of a Day Haiku Contest!

To celebrate the upcoming extension of our award-winning play, The Timing of a Day, Mind The Art Entertainment is sponsoring a haiku contest. It's free, and the winner gets four tickets to The Timing of a Day or any other upcoming MTAE production. The winning haiku will be included in the program for The Timing of a Day, and the winning haiku and three honorable mentions will be published on Mind The Art Entertainment’s website.

How to enter:

Write a haiku about living with someone. A haiku is composed of three lines: the first consisting of five syllables, the second consisting of seven syllables, and the third consisting of five syllables.

Email submissions to: Keelie.A.Sheridan@gmail.com by 11:59pm EST on Friday, March 11th. Our panel of judges will select the Top Twenty Semi-Finalists, which will be posted on Monday, March 14th on Mind The Art Entertainment’s Facebook page. Public voting will take place through 11:59pm on Friday, March 18th. The five haikus with the most “likes” on our Facebook page will advance to the finals, and the winner will be selected by our judges and announced on Monday, March 21st.

It's that simple! Write a haiku to win free tickets to a Mind The Art Entertainment production!



And don't forget to come see The Timing of a Day...

Written by Owen Panettieri
Directed By Joey Brenneman

Starring Justin Anselmi, Miguel Govea, Nik Kourtis, and R. Elizabeth Woodard


Performances April 1-17, 2011 at Center Stage, NY (48 W. 21st St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10010)

Wednesday through Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 3pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 3pm


Purchase tickets at www.MindTheArtEntertainment.com/Tickets.html

Check it out on Facebook.

Help keep NYC Indie Theatre Alive!

Theatre in NYC is vibrant, edgy, and thought provoking. NYC is the center of the highest quality theatrical entertainment in the world, but in order to survive and continue providing top-level productions, we need your help! Costs are rising everywhere, but this is especially true in Off- and Off-Off-Broadway Theatre, where disappearing grants and dwindling government funding, coupled with greater competition from high-end, formerly Broadway producers who are booking up some of the smaller theaters upon which we rely, have driven up the costs for us little guys. At the same time, landlords have raised rents far out of pace with a venue’s ability to book space or a theatrical production’s ability to earn ticket revenue. This has resulted in the closing and/or bankruptcy of scores of small theaters across the country, more than half of these in NYC alone! Help us maintain the vitality of the arts in NYC by supporting our production of an outstanding theatrical journey: The Timing of a Day.

Written by Owen Panettieri and directed by Joey Brenneman, The Timing of a Day follows three New York City roommates who share a loving (if cramped) Harlem apartment and a similarly loving (if cramped) triangular friendship. As the play opens, the three find themselves navigating the regular ups and downs of city life, when an unforeseeable tragedy rips them from the ordinary and changes the course of their lives and friendships forever. What follows is the reshuffled story of their time living together viewed over the course of a single day. Slices of their future, present, and past weave together in new ways, illustrating what it is that really draws these three people together, as well as what pulls them apart. While examining life, love, and loss from one sunrise to the next, each individual is forced to question if there really is such a thing as “perfect timing” or if all timing is just perfectly flawed…

Following critical acclaim at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival, The Timing of a Day will open at Center Stage, NY, for a full three-week extension from Wednesday, March 30th, through Sunday, April 17th, 2011. A special Gala Benefit Performance is scheduled for Wednesday, March 30th, followed by an invitation-only Press & Industry Preview on Thursday, March 31st. Official Opening Night is Friday, April 1st.

The Timing of a Day opened on August 18, 2010, to rave reviews and went on to receive various honors. The play won FringeNYC's “Overall Excellence in Ensemble” award, was named “Outstanding New Play for the 2010 Summer Festival Season” by Talkin' Broadway, and was cited “20 Best of Fest” by NYCFringeGuide.com.

CAST: Justin Anselmi, Miguel Govea, Nik Kourtis, R. Elizabeth Woodard

PERFORMANCES will be held Wednesday through Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 3pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 3pm.

TICKETS are $18 in advance or $20 at the door; $13 tickets available for students and seniors. To purchase tickets for The Timing of a Day, please visit

http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Tickets.....

If you would like to attend the Gala Benefit Performance on Wednesday, March 30th, please visit https://www.fracturedatlas.org/s/campaign/253.

REVIEWS from 2010 FringeNYC Production:

“Powerful and clever… four outstanding performances.” ~ Blake Ross, Playbill

“Mr. Panettieri’s ear for dialogue is remarkable.” ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda, Manhattan Times

“Caring and committed direction… lovely.” ~ Robert Windeler, Backstage.com (Critic’s Pick)