Hope these stars like flying by the seat of their pants! Working Girl Melanie Griffith, Les Miz movie fave Amanda Seyfried, OITNB's Uzo Aduba and Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage are among the many big names to have signed up to The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway. The 14th annual event challenges more than a dozen actors, six writers and six directors to come up with six original short plays over the course of a day. The AP reports that the plays will be performed for a live audience at the American Airlines Theatre on November 17.
Other stage and screen stars who are taking part this year include Sasha Alexander, Jamie Chung, Billy Crudup, Rachel Dratch, Nina Dobrev, Michael Ealy, Seth Green, Bryan Greenberg, Taran Killam, Zoe Kravitz, Justin Long, Aasif Mandvi, Stephen Merchant, Diane Neal, Jay Pharoah, Sebastian Stan, Julia Stiles, Tracie Thoms, Michael Kenneth and Pablo Schreiber.
The directors include America Ferrera, Andy Fickman and Kathy Najimy, while the writers will include Christina Anderson, Bekah Brunstetter, comedian David Cross, David Lindsay Abaire, Jonathan Marc Sherman and Sarwat Siddiqui.
Proceeds from the event will be donated to the Urban Arts Partnership.