Welcome to the 30 Minutes or Less Festival!
Presented by Theatre Asylum and Combined Artform, the 30 Minutes or Less Festival celebrates the power of concise, impactful storytelling on stage.
Back for its second year, the festival features an exciting lineup of performances—each 30 minutes or less—spanning a variety of genres including drama, comedy, storytelling, solo work, puppetry, and more.
🎟️ We know that producing can be intimidating and costly, so we’ve built this festival to be artist-focused and all-inclusive: tech, a tech operator, marketing and social media support are all included, along with low participation fees and 100% of ticket sales going to the artists.
🏆 This year’s prizes include producing and marketing support, plus the return of the $6,000 Spotlight Mentorship from Diversity Entertainment, helping one artist take their story from stage to screen.
📺 In an age where 30-minute episodes and short-form content are driving storytelling across film, TV, and streaming, this festival embraces the format as a launchpad for the next generation of creators.
TESTIMONIALS FROM PERFORMERS
"A big shoutout to producer/techie/co-creator Matt Quinn and publicist/co-creator Bertha Rodriguez for pulling off their inaugural theatre festival, 30 Minutes Or Less. Due to the fires, they almost canceled their two-weekend event at Steph Feury Studio Theatre. From my perspective as both performer and judge, I'm so happy they decided to plow forward! And what a success, both in execution AND quality. I saw about half of the shows and most exceeded my expectations. And what I especially liked about this shorter format is the audience was spared the torture of dragging scene transitions and overlong vanity projects. In many standard length shows, I would often find myself fantasizing about shooting everyone on stage and in the audience as well as myself from either enduring 1) the horror of those slow, dead minutes between scenes or 2) an unnecessarily long play. Not here! These were 15, 20, 25-minute blasts of solid entertainment and a diversity in content and performers. Furthermore, the efficiently run 15-minute load-in/load-out break between shows allowed audiences to enjoy stacking multiple performances within 90 minutes and for a very reasonable price. I also enjoyed the adjacent taco bar "Tu Madre" and the Indonesian vegan, gluten-free ice cream shop, "Awan." Overall, a great success and I'm happy the festival is returning next year! Bravo to Matt & Bertha's vision, congratulations to all the award winners and no, I wasn't paid to write this" -Brian Knudson
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