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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. Check out our most recent newsletter. Want to learn more? "Like" Ashland New Plays Festival on Facebook and view our photo albums! Send us your contact information (we promise not to share it), and we'll be happy to add you to our mailing list. Got a question or want to get involved? Drop us a line at info@AshlandNewPlays.org. ANPF 2011 Closed with a Standing OvationANPF 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.
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ANPF in the NewsANPF Spring 2012 newsletterHonolulu 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 Ashland Daily
Tidings: A Walk in the Woods Medford
Mail
Tribune:
Mike
Farrell: Medford Mail
Tribune: Drama Dreams: ANPF
scholarship winner Aurelia Grierson Ashland Daily
Tidings: Molly Tinsley's Medford Mail
Tribune: ANPF Offers $500 Scholarship
to AHS Graduating Senior Ashland Daily
Tidings: ANPF 2010 Medford Mail
Tribune: ANPF 2010 ANPF
Fall 2010 newsletter
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