ANPF Needs Your Input on the ANPF Wiki Project!

Attention past playwrights, participants, and patrons! In honor of ANPF’s twentieth year in 2012, we are launching the ANPF Wiki Project to fully document our history. Has your ANPF winning play gone on to subsequent productions? Has it won awards? Did you act in ANPF back in the day? Has a winning playwright you’ve followed hit the big time? Let the world know!

Please check out Ashland New Plays Festival’s Wikipedia page and add to it! At the top right are Read, Edit, and View History tabs. When you click on the Edit tab, you’ll get a message about registering: it’s a good idea if you use Wikipedia at all, but it’s not necessary to register before adding to ANPF’s page. If you can contribute, please do!

If you’d prefer to e-mail us your information, send it to webmaster@AshlandNewPlays.org. Our website lists all of our winners dating back to 1993. In the coming months, we’ll also be delving into our dusty paper archive to see what more we can unearth and digitize. Help us celebrate ANPF’s rich history by contributing!


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! See the reviews and press links to the right or check out the festival week play-by-play on our Facebook feed.

Congratulations to this year's 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 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 this year's festival, our Reading Committee advanced 35 scripts to the semifinals, and of the top 12 our artistic team chose the four winners. For the latest news, check out our newsletter.

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ANPF in the News

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