Ashland New Plays Festival

		ATTENTION PLAYWRIGHTS Script submissions for ANPF 2010 are now closed. Cliick here to view our ANPF 2010 Script Submission Guidelines. Updated script guidelines and dates for submissions for ANPF 2011 will be posted by August 1, 2010.
The ANPF Play Selection Commitee is now reading scripts for our flagship festival — an international playwright competition that culminates in the reading of four new plays culled from hundreds of submissions. The event is slated for October 20 to 24, 2010. Details will be posted as they become available. Please note: There was an error in our PO Box number in The Dramatists Guild. Our correct PO Box is 3314. If your script was returned as unclaimed from Box 453, please resend it to Box 3314. We apologize for the error and will reimburse you for the extra postage. We will accept plays after the January 15 deadline if they were originally received on time at Box 453.
Ashland New Plays Festival on Facebook	Attention Volunteers and Theatre Enthusiasts Playwrights, patrons, readers,actors, and fellow lovers of theatre—we want to hear from you! You may know by now that Ashland New Plays Festival came close to shutting its doors, but a group of enthusiasts banded together to reestablish what we consider one of Ashland's finest artistic gems. Although we were not able to produce the festival in 2009, we are actively working to present a traditional ANPF in 2010. We had several fundraisers in 2009, including four fully staged one-act plays, a murder-mystery dinner, a backyard BBQ, and a traditional ANPF reading of an award-winning play. This has given us the funds we need to stage the festival this fall. We're looking for ideas for fundraisers this year, and we welcome your suggestions. Please share your vision for rebuilding the festival! E-mail us at info@AshlandNewPlays.org or call (541) 488-7995. Send us your contact info. (We promise not to share it.)	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 newsletter, click here. Denizen TV Episode #6: Elizabeth von Radics and Cristofer Jean discuss the resurrection of ANPF Denizen TV Episode #12: Rebecca Wood and Cristofer Jean wax poetic about ANPF Student Spotlight Special thanks to the playwrights, casts, and crews of ANPF Student Spotlightand Song of Extinction for making our 2009 season a smashing success!
ASHLAND NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL Foundedin 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 AshlandNew 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.		BOARD OF DIRECTORS Frederick F. Wright, President Terry Ansnes, Vice President Elizabeth von Radics, Secretary Dolores Marx, Treasurer Melissa Brown Bill Faiia Tilly Gibbs Hollis Greenwood Jan Lofthouse Mary Pat Power Norma Wright ANPF ADVISORY BOARD 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