Ashland New Plays Festival

 ATTENTION PLAYWRIGHTS

Scripts for ANPF 2011 will be accepted between September 1 and December 1, 2010.

Click here for the ANPF 2011
Script Submission Guidelines.

Cliick here for the
ANPF 2011 Application.

ANPF Reunites OSF's Original 1997 Cast for a Reading of Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman ANPF will present a dramatic reading of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on Labor Day, September 6, at 8 p.m. at Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Black Swan Theatre.

Through the gracious cooperation of OSF's 1997 cast members and OSF Artistic Director Bill Rauch, ANPF is proud to reunite OSF’s impressive original lineup, which includes Tony DeBruno, Michael Elich, Bill Geisslinger, Kirsten Giroux, David Kelly, William Langan, Gregory Linington, Dee Maaske, U. Jonathan Toppo, and Douglas Rowe. Narration is by Robin Goodwin Nordli.

Rowe, ANPF's artistic director, originally came to Ashland to perform the role of Willy Loman in OSF's 1997 production. The play received strong reviews and is fondly remembered by theatergoers lucky enough to have seen it. For an in-depth article, check out our summer 2010 newsletter.

Tickets are $20 and are available at Paddington Station, 125 E Main Street in downtown Ashland, and by calling (541) 488-7995.



The Envelope Please... Announcing the Winning Playwrights for ANPF's Flagship Festival

Technicolor Life by Jami Brandli
Jami Brandli’s play The Sinker had its world premiere at HotCity Theatre in St. Louis in May 2010, and she was recently a visiting playwright at the 2010 WordBridge Playwrights Lab. Jami lives in Pasadena with her husband, Brian Polak, where she’s at work on scripts for both stage and screen as well as writing a novel. At her day job, she teaches writing at Lesley University’s MFA program in Boston.

ANPF 2010

The Exceptionals by Bob Clyman
Robert Clyman’s works have been produced across the nation at leading repertory theatres from California to New York. His awards include a Eugene O’Neill Summer Conference Fellowship, an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, an Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship, and a nomination for an Outer Circle Critics Award for best script in 2008.

A Gold Star in the Window by Harlene Goodrich
Harlene Goodrich is a late bloomer, having returned to the University of Southern California at age 50 to earn a master’s degree in professional writing. Since graduating she has won playwriting competitions in California, Iowa, and New York. Her short play Picture Perfect was published by Samuel French in the Best of Off-On Broadway series for 2006. She filled six journals extolling the beauty of the California coastline when she and her husband walked from the Mexican border to Oregon in 2005.

The Insidious Impact of Anton by David Hilder
David Hilder’s short play Just Exactly Like was a finalist for the 2010 Heideman Award. His other plays and musicals have been produced in New York by Raw Impressions, theAtrainplays, Ensemble Theater, and many more. David is also a director and a recovering actor.

ANPF will welcome these playwrights to Ashland for ANPF 2010, October 20 through 24, at the First Congregational Church, 717 Siskiyou Boulevard. We are now in our eighteenth year. Click here to view the archive of past winners.
Attention Theatre Enthusiasts

Playwrights, patrons, readers, actors, and fellow lovers of theatre—we want to hear from you! We're always looking for novel ideas for fundraisers, and we welcome your comments and suggestions. Want to get involved? Please contact us and share your vision for keeping the festival alive and well!

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Become a Member of ANPF

Whether your gift is large or small, it is you—our members—who make it possible for us to
continue to bring new plays to the stage. These fresh works come to life through the voices of professional actors on our Ashland stage. You can help make this happen by becoming a member of ANPF—one of the premier new plays festivals in the country.

All gifts are significant
and tax-deductible, and every little bit helps. We appreciate your ongoing support.

ANPF News

To read or print our summer 2010 newsletter, click here.

To read or print our spring 2010 newsletter, click here.

Medford Mail Tribune
God's Man in Texascoverage

Ashland Daily Tidings
Song of Extinction coverage


Ashland Daily Tidings
Student Spotlight coverage
Medford Mail Tribune
Student Spotlight coverage

To read or print our summer 2009 newsletter, click here.

Click here to see the past ANPF winning playwrights


ASHLAND NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL
 

Founded in 1992, Ashland New Plays Festival is a nonprofit organization, managed by a volunteer board of directors, that encourages playwrights in the creation of new works through public readings. We also offer an educational forum to the community through discussions and workshops.

ANPF's flagship festival is its international playwright competition that culminates in the reading of four new plays culled from hundreds of submissions by a cadre of volunteer readers. This unique and much-loved event features performances by actors from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the community. These readings and the discussions that follow are a rich theatrical experience for audiences, and the guest playwrights look to our sophisticated playgoers for responses to their works as they evolve from the page to the stage. In those magic exchanges of feedback, audience comments may help turn a very good play into a masterpiece or encourage a playwright to continue his or her efforts in the challenging endeavor of bringing a new work to the public.

The heart of ANPF is our Play Selection Committee, which starts with organizational and training meetings in the fall and then reads blinded scripts through the winter and the spring. Using a scoring system, readers reduce the submissions from several hundred to around 35. At that point discussions lead to eight semifinalists. The four winning scripts are selected by the four theatrical directors. The ANPF Board of Directors takes it from there, planning a five-day festival in beautiful Ashland, Oregon, that draws playwrights and theatre lovers from far and wide for a week of workshops, readings, and playwright appreciation as we celebrate new works for the stage.


OUR MISSION

Ashland New Plays Festival assists playwrights in the development of new works through public readings and offers an educational forum to the community through discussions and workshops.


ANPF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Frederick F. Wright, President
Terry Ansnes, Vice President
Elizabeth von Radics, Secretary
Dolores Marx, Treasurer
Amanda Berkeley
Melissa Brown
Bill Faiia
Tilly Gibbs
Jan Lofthouse
Gray McKee
Mary Pat Power
Norma Wright

ANPF ADVISORY BOARD

Douglas Rowe, Artistic Director
Federico Behncke
Orion Bradshaw
Richard Elmore
Robert Frank
Jonathan Haugen
Michael Hume
Cristofer Jean
Liisa Ivary
John Pribyl
Caroline Shaffer
Eddie Wallace
Derrick Lee Weeden
Lyda Woods
Angela Workman

 


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