Script Reading for ANPF 2013 Is Well Under Way

The script submission deadline for ANPF 2013 has passed, and we received a record-breaking 270+ qualified scripts--an all-time high in ANPF's 21-year history. The Reading Committee is now reviewing the scripts that have moved on to round 2.

ANPF 2013 runs October 23 to 27 in beautiful Ashland, Oregon. The winning playwrights are on-site for a full week.

To submit your script for ANPF 2014, click here.

Get Your ANPF Tote Bag While They Last!

Whether you’re schlepping scripts or running to rehearsal, our sturdy ANPF EcoResponsible™ tote bag fits comfortably on your shoulder. Made of natural cotton with contrasting trim and 22" handles, these snazzy bags feature the ANPF logo silk-screened on the outer pocket. We’ll have them for sale at this year’s events for $10, or you can have yours delivered via first-class mail for $15.

Click here for details and to order yours today!

ANPF 2012 Marked Our Twentieth Year

ANPF 2012The Winning Playwrights for ANPF 2012
Suzanne Bradbeer of New York City for The God Game
Richard Manley of New York City for This Rough Magic
Cary Pepper of San Francisco for How It Works
Joshua Rebell of New York City for Omission

Click here to see the full Festival Week lineup

The curtain has fallen on ANPF 2012. All four winning playwrights traveled to Ashland for Festival Week, which was a whirlwind of readings, workshops, interviews, and social events. View photos, read the winners' bios, and check out the Facebook buzz!


ANPF 2012 host playwright EM Lewis and winning playwrights Richard Manley, Cary Pepper, Suzanne Bradbeer, and Joshua Rebell

Theatre Talk Interview Series

Theatre Talk was an exciting new addition to Festival Week.
A series of conversations with prominent local actors inspired by James Lipton’s television series Inside the Actors Studio, it focuses on the ways actors’ lives merge with their process, skill, and inspiration to create art. The series provides audiences with a window into the art and the craft of acting as practiced by exceptionally talented people, illuminating the nature of theater and providing a better understanding of some dynamic local artists.

Check out the videos of ANPF Theatre Talk interviews with Oregon Shakespeare Festival actors John Tufts and Nell Geisslinger.


     

ANPF in the News

Ashland Daily Tidings: When Ethics and Entrepreneurs Collide

ANPF Spring 2013 newsletter

ANPF Winter 2012 newsletter

Ashland Daily Tidings: Professionally Staged

San Francisco Chronicle: "The 'Works'": Cary Pepper

ANPF Fall 2012 newsletter

The Dramatist: ANPF Names This Year's Winning Playwrights

Sneak Preview: ANPF 2012 Winning Playwrights

Sneak Preview: Profile of Marketing Director Elizabeth von Radics

ANPF Summer 2012 newsletter

Ashland Daily Tidings: AHS senior Nick Mckernan wins ANPF scholarship

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

ANPF Board of Directors
Has New Officers for 2013

Our Board of Directors elected Frederick F. Wright and Linda Young as president and vice president, respectively, for 2013. Dolores Marx remains secretary/treasurer. The board also has three new members: Jim Schellentrager, Marguerite Schellentrager, and Nina Winans. To read the bios of all ANPF board members and staff, click here.

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