The New York International Theater Film and Arts Festival will be held annually in New York City,
The acts selected have received one of the USA Weekly News 100 star awards for holding a higher standard than the average 5-star awards normally given by the media industry. The USA Weekly News are the major sponsors of the New York International Theatre Film and Arts Festival, but the but the NYITFest hopes other sponsors in the business, media, entertainment, music, dance, art, internet, computer and telecommunications and film industries will come forward to help support this extremely and necessary worthwhile event.

Through being invited to perform at the NYITFest, the selected acts will be able to perform in the world's spotlight to further their careers in acting, dancing, directing, film-making, music, writing, singing, comedy. It is hoped that this will bring world-wide attention to these special performances.

1. Molly Bloom
Well respected Irish actress Eilin O'Dea in her performance of " Molly Bloom" an extract from James Joyce's "Ulysses" Paris 1922. The writer and the actress speak for themselves, in this academy award The writer and the actress speak for themselves, in this academy award quality performance of James Joyce's Ulysses Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of the James Joyce's "Ulysses". This is recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature..

3. "All Change",
written and performed by seasoned English / Australian stand up comedian, Kerry Leigh. Kerry was born in England but was educated at the Curtain University in Western Australia where she completed a BA with Honours, studying English with a double major in Creative Writing and Theatre Arts. Kerry Leigh says this about her play
"All Change" -- "Juggling isn't easy - some days you hand your baby a beer and ask your man if he's done a pooh-pooh. Has this funny mummy gone gaga? Ride the highs and lows of a comedian's experience of first-time motherhood as she shares her story with painful honesty and curious humour...."
Often mistaken for an Antipodean, Kerry was sent to Australia as a convict when she was just 9 years old for heinous crimes against fashion, returning to the UK in her twenties where she has since developed a dry and witty comedic style musing on the absurdities of life through the eyes of a pseudo-Australian.

4. Jessica Delfino
who went to Philadelphia Art Institute, which Jessica says is "the home of brotherly love...where the brothers love each other." After being seen by the INL News Team in London and at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with her show entitled, Songs About Vaginas, , she was invited to join the NYITFest. Jessica has had some her songs banned by you tube and denounced….. yes…. denounced by the Catholic League. Jessica destroyed the audiences in London and in Edinburgh, when she brought her one woman show to the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It is hard to describe Jessica using just words, however the USA Weekly News described her performance as "innocently provocative."

5. Beat Up Dirty Yanks Crew,
An out-there character Los Angeles comedy group, now well-known as the Beat Up Dirty Yanks Crew, Ronnie Proudy, Tim Schwartz and Ty Twiss, after the show they presented at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival blew audiences away with laughter. These zany guys have the unique ability to interact with any type of audience, any where in the world without any script what so ever. These guys are improvisation specialists in character comedy, and are America's most idiotic, obnoxious, and energetic outcasts. Their now infamous Beat Up Dirty Yanks show in Edinburgh was a comedic character smack down slammed with stand-up, sketch and improvisation. Some contenders included Buck, a Jewish soul loving hick and Hector, a chauvinistic Mexican plumber. You simply never know what to expect from these guys so there is no way to put a title on the show they will present at the 2008 New York International Theater, Film and Arts Festival, other than they promise it will be show to remember and not to be missed. When Ronnie Prouty, the leader of the Beat Up Dirty Yanks Gang was invited to perform at the 2008 New York International Theater, Film and Arts Festival his response was, "I am very excited to go to the NYITFest, I will bring a variety show that will blow your top off."
So, be warned -- these guys are going to be armed and dangerous.

6. The FAMOUS Bite Size team
bring you the best short 10 minute plays in the world. Great comedy is provided to all by the Bite Size Team, British actors and Comedians playing the best of Aussie and British humour.

7. Day In Dig Day Nation,
is another quality futuristic play from the Flying Carpet Theatre...
http://flyingcarpettheatre.com/dig1.htm Animation-Virtuoso-political satire..
Discover how an office drone becomes superhero, rock star and post-apocalypic scientist all in one day...."The Future of Theatre! Don't Miss this show!" Seattle Weekly http://flyingcarpettheatre.com/dig1.htm

8. Attempt 3.4 The Film
- Attempt 3.4 was an Edinburgh Fringe play now a film -
Four Two Planners of the Apocalypse Draw the Blueprint and build the city in 60 minutes. Attempt 3.4 unfolds a map of the city. Four people, lost. Coloured light bulbs illuminate their search for each other as they travel the grid of the city.
Sometimes they meet,
sometimes they just brush shoulders,
sometimes they slip through the web,
but instead of loss, they discover the pleasure of falling....

Filmed from the last live performance at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and produced by International News Limited association with Bitter Blue Productions, this is one of the very first times an Edinburgh Fringe Play has been turned into a feature film.

9. Das Contras --
a great Scottish Jass-Rock-Funk fusion band that ripped audiences apart at the 2007 Wickerman Music and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. Scotland rocks with Scottish band Das Contras -- one of the best bands to come out of Scotland this decade.
For more information about Das Contras, please visit:
http://www.usaweeklynews.com/DasContrasScotland_sBest.html

10. Japanese artist Shizuko Kiyohara.
Art will be on displayed by amazing talented Japanese artist Shizuko Kiyohara.

11. My Space! The Musical!-