ANPF Celebrates Our Twentieth Year in 2012

Ashland New Plays Festival is celebrating our twentieth year, which will be marked by special events to commemorate our rich history, including a gala reunion for past playwrights and others who have participated in the festival during the past two decades. Did you act, direct, or serve on the Board of Directors for ANPF over the past 20 years? Are you a past winning playwright? If so, we’re trying to reconnect with you! Please get in touch so that we can send your invitation to the gala reunion at the ANPF 2012 kickoff this October! You can enter your contact information here.

Script submissions for ANPF 2012 are now closed, and our Reading Committee is busy evaluating the scripts for this year's festival, which runs October 24 to 28. The winning playwrights will be notified in June. Scripts for ANPF 2013 will be accepted beginning August 20, 2012.

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Got a question or want to get involved? Drop us a line at info@AshlandNewPlays.org.


ANPF 2011 Closed with a Standing Ovation

ANPF 2011 performances ran Wednesday, October 19, to Sunday, October 23. EM Lewis  returned as our host playwright. See our online photo album! You can read the reviews and press links under "ANPF in the News" to the right, or check out the festival week play-by-play on our Facebook Timeline.

Congratulations to the winning playwrights, who were in town for the week: Gary Dontzig of New Mexico for Couples; Steven Haworth of New York for Fernando; Thomas W. Stephens of Washington, DC, for Countdown to the Happy Day; and Carol Verburg of San Francisco for Spin, or Twilight of the Bohemians. Read their bios and the synopses of the winning plays.

The readings were directed by Claudia Alick, Brain Demar Jones, Lenny Neimark, Caroline Shaffer, and John Stadelman. Cast members included Mark Barsekian, Brandy Carson, Benajah Cobb, Ted Deasy, Gina Daniels, Michael Elich, Jim Garcia, Rodney Gardiner, Cristofer Jean, David Kelly, Miriam Laube, Christopher Livingston, Holly Weber Neimark, Terri McMahon, Douglas Rowe, Kimberly Scott, Dayvin Turchiano, Ellie von Radics, and Rex Young.

We received more than 200 submissions for ANPF 2011, our Reading Committee advanced 35 scripts to the semifinals, and of the top 12 our artistic team chose the four winners.



    

ANPF in the News

ANPF Spring 2012 newsletter

Honolulu Star Advertiser: The Play’s Not the Only Thing; Ashland Is an Adventureland

The Dramatist: ANPF 2011 Saw Record Audiences, Gave the Playwrights a Profound Experience

American Theatre magazine: News in Brief

ANFP Winter 2011 newsletter

Medford Mail Tribune: Enter, Stage Left, the Volunteer Reader

Ashland Daily Tidings Review: Countdown to the Happy Day

Ashland Daily Tidings Profile: Front Rowe Center

AshlandPlayReviews.com: OSF All-Stars Perform in Ashland New Plays Festival

Ashland Daily Tidings: ANPF 2011

ANPF Fall 2011 newsletter

ANPF Summer 2011 newsletter

Ashland Daily Tidings: A Walk in the Woods

Medford Mail Tribune: Mike Farrell:
A Responsibility to Speak Out

Medford Mail Tribune: Drama Dreams: ANPF scholarship winner Aurelia Grierson

ANPF Spring 2011 newsletter

Ashland Daily Tidings: Molly Tinsley's
The Limits of Bliss

Medford Mail Tribune: ANPF Offers $500 Scholarship to AHS Graduating Senior

ANPF Winter 2010 newsletter

Ashland Daily Tidings: ANPF 2010

Medford Mail Tribune: ANPF 2010

ANPF Fall 2010 newsletter

Ashland Daily Tidings: "New Theatre of Classics" Guest Opinion

Medford Mail Tribune: Death of a Salesman

ANPF Summer 2010 newsletter


ANPF Spring 2010 newsletter

Medford Mail Tribune: God's Man in Texas

Ashland Daily Tidings: Song of Extinction

Ashland Daily Tidings: ANPF Student Spotlight

Medford Mail Tribune: New Plays and New Writers:
ANPF Student Spotlight

ANPF Summer 2009 newsletter