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Founded in 1992 and managed by a volunteer board of directors, Ashland New Plays Festival is a nonprofit theatre 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 Fall Festival is an international playwright competition that culminates in the reading of four new plays chosen by a team of volunteer readers from hundreds of submissions. This unique and much-loved event features professional actors from Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Southern Oregon University’s Theatre Department, the local community, and regional theatre hot spots. The reading performances, and the talkbacks that follow, are a rich theatrical experience for audiences.
The winning playwrights look to our sophisticated playgoers, skilled directors, world-class actors, and expert guidance from our artistic director and host playwright for responses to their works as they evolve from the page to the stage. In those magical exchanges of feedback, comments or suggestions may help turn a very good play into a masterpiece and encourage playwrights to continue their efforts in the challenging endeavor of bringing new works to the public.
The soul of ANPF is our Reading Committee, which starts with organizational and training meetings in the fall and then reads blinded scripts throughout the winter and spring. Through a series of group discussions and employing a numerical scoring system, readers reduce the submissions from several hundred to around 35. At that point, further discussions result in 10 to 15 semifinalists; the artistic director leads the collaborative process of choosing the four winners.
The winning playwrights are announced in July, and in October they travel to beautiful Ashland, Oregon, for the Festival, which draws playwrights and theatre lovers from far and wide for a week of readings, talkbacks, workshops, and playwright appreciation as we celebrate new works for the stage.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
We at the Ashland New Plays Festival acknowledge our complicity in racist structures and pledge to move forward with concrete actions.
Beginning in 2021,
- We pledge that at least 50% of the plays we present each season will be the work of BIPOC playwrights.
- We will launch a new initiative called “Pass the Pen,” which will reserve fifty spaces for invited BIPOC playwrights to submit plays for consideration in our Fall Festival, free of charge.
- ANPF’s board and reader leadership will form a Reader Recruitment Committee, which will work to recruit and welcome BIPOC readers from the community.
- All ANPF board, staff, and readers will commit to unconscious bias training.
- We will undertake an annual review process to hold ourselves accountable. If the steps outlined above do not yield necessary change, further action will be taken.
We are deeply committed to supporting theatre artists during this time of crisis in funding for the arts. We ask that you stand with us as we reach toward a more equitable and ethical future.
Team
Jackie Apodaca, Artistic Director
Beth Kander, Host Playwright
This year would have marked Beth's sixth autumn in Ashland, and while she misses being in the Rogue Valley for the festival, her heart is still with everyone there. Beth is a playwright and novelist who grew up in the small-town Midwest and Deep South. Playwriting honors include the Henry Award for Best New Play or Musical (for her play Hazardous Materials, directed by Kyle Haden, an ANPF 2016 selection); Headwaters New Play Award; Equity Library Theatre Showcase; Ashland New Plays Festival; Eudora Welty New Play Awards; and the Charles M. Getchell New Play Award, among others. Her dystopian trilogy Original Syn was acquired by Owl House Books in 2017 and quickly became the imprint's bestseller, also winning a 2019 Foreword INDIES Award. Her ghost story 13 Jericho Lane was a 2019 Pitch Wars selection, now pending publication; she's excited to continue exploring "newish Jewish folklore" in her current work-in-progress, a Southern Gothic golem story tentatively titled Clay Heart. The granddaughter of immigrants, she is interested in the intersection of new ideas and identities with old stories, secrets, and legends. She has an MSW from the University of Michigan and an MFA from Mississippi University for Women. Beth is represented by Allison Hellegers at Stimola Literary Studio, and several of her plays are available through Stage Rights. She lives in Chicago with her favorite characters (her quirky little family). Learn more about Beth.
Admin and Event Staff
Nick Canepa
Sound Engineer
J. Ching
Stage Manager,
Perseverance by Callie Kimball
Sarah Glasgow
Administrative Assistant
Kara Q. Lewis
Administrator & Associate Producer
Andy Neal
Podcast Producer
Emily Robinson
Production Stage Manager,
Fall Festival 2020
Ella Tarczy
Sound Engineer
Volunteers
Beth Falkenstein
Production Manager
Carole Florian
Editor
Michele Lansdowne
Grants Coordinator
Penny Mikesell
Script Submission Coordinator
Gray McKee
Reader Committee Co-Chair
James Pagliasotti
Podcast Founder
Eric Poppick
Reader Co-Chair
John Rose
Theatre Talk
Dennis Tetz
Fall Festival House Manager
Board of Directors
Peggy Moore, President
Peggy has lived in the Colestin Valley for 33 years. She and her partner, 39 goats, and rescue cats and dogs live on a farm and raise hogs and make goat milk soap. Peggy taught at Foothill College in the San Francisco Bay Area for 19 years. She taught English and drama and had the distinction of teaching King Lear about 82 times. She has actually taught the entire Shakespeare canon. Peggy started the women’s studies program at Foothill, which was the first community college in the country to grant an associate degree in women’s studies, awarding the first one in 1975. Before retiring in 2004, Peggy was the academic vice president at College of the Siskiyous for 15 years, an interim VP at Shasta College (twice) and Lassen College once, and the interim superintendent/president of College of the Siskiyous. She holds two master’s degrees—one in English and one is social science (women’s studies) from San Jose State University. Peggy loves theatre and is delighted serve on the ANPF board. She has been a reader for several years, as well. Peggy also loves animals and previously served as the president of the board for Friends of the Animal Shelter; she has been on that board since 1999. She also served on the board of AAUW Ashland. She chairs the board of the Colestin Rural Fire District and the Animal Control Advisory Committee for Jackson County. She volunteers with the Ashland Independent Film Festival and continues to serve as a consultant for colleges in both California and Wyoming.
William (Bill) Grove, Vice President
Bill was born in a small farm town in Kansas into a family of three generations of physicians. His parents appreciated the arts and took him to see Helen Hayes and Maurice Evens in a touring performance from Shakespeare in Wichita. It was transforming, and, although he was predestined to be a physician, he has made theatre a part of his life since then. He graduated from Rice University (attending the Alley Theater and the Houston Opera) and Northwestern Medical School (The Goodman Theater, Second City, etc.) and did his residency in Pathology at Stanford. He practiced medicine at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose. During that time, he served several terms on the nonprofit Medical Staff Corporation, including time as treasurer and president of the board. He also served a term as treasurer for the Medical Staff. In the Bay Area theatre scene, he had season subscriptions to ACT, TheatreWorks, San Jose Rep, and the San Francisco Opera and regularly attended Berkeley Rep and other venues. In 1982, he discovered Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He became a member of OSF with regular visits increasing in frequency culminating in buying a home in 2012, so that he spends around a quarter of his time in Ashland now. Bill is active in the local CERT activities and the Atherton Disaster Preparedness Committee, acting as a neighborhood coordinator. He has also been treasurer and president of the Peninsula Wine Tasting Group as well as Chef de Cave and Grand Senechal (President) of the Confrérie des Chevaliers de Tastevin, Sous-Commanderie de Silicon Valley – a Burgundy-centric group. He is also a volunteer reader for ANPF, which he’s loved doing the past two years. He is honored to be a part of ANPF to help find good new theatre and nourish it.
Beth Falkenstein, Treasurer / Production Manager
In 2016 Beth moved to Ashland from Los Angeles, California, where she had spent many years working in the entertainment industry. As a Production Coordinator for episodic television and movies-of-the-week, her nearly compulsive need for organization served her well; as a writer for several network sitcoms she found a productive outlet for her natural inclination toward irreverence and sarcasm. More recently, Beth has been the owner and manager of a successful music publishing and recording catalog. A graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in theatre, she has fond memories of the regular summer trips her family made from Detroit to the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. Making a home here, amid the theatre community of Ashland, has been a dream come true. As a member of the board, Beth is thrilled for the opportunity to unite her administrative and artistic sensibilities, and to be a part of an organization as dynamic and vital as ANPF.
Roger Pearce, Secretary
Roger worked for many years in community theatre as a dancer, singer, and actor while supporting his theatre habit by working as a cook and baker. After going to law school in his thirties, he practiced land use law at one of Seattle’s largest law firms for 23 years. Roger and wife, Julie, have been trying to move to Ashland for years. In 2013 they were finally able to make the move, where Roger is practicing law less, enjoying it more, and making time for theatre-oriented pursuits like Ashland New Plays Festival.
Jane Bardin
Jane has loved the theatre since she had the lead in her senior play in high school. She considered a career in theatre when she enrolled at UC Berkeley but decided she needed something that would support her more reliably in the future. She majored in economics and graduated with highest honors. She then got an MBA with a specialty in finance, also from UC Berkeley. After working for Wells Fargo in Investment Advisors for 10 years, during which she earned the designation Certified Financial Analyst (CFA), she founded her own firm, Bardin Financial Services, a Registered Investment Advisor. In 1987 she moved her firm from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Sierra foothills town of Jackson. She was one of the founders of the Amador Land Trust and served on the board in many positions, including president. In addition, she helped found the Amador Community Fund, again serving as a board member; she still consults with the board on financial questions. She returned to her love of theatre by joining the Volcano Theatre Company, serving on the board for several years as secretary and treasurer, but best of all she got to act and do something she had always wanted to do: direct. It was from her fellow thespians that she learned about Ashland, which they lovingly called “Mecca,” and thus began the twice yearly trips to the Rogue Valley. When she retired and sold her firm, she and her husband moved to Medford. She quickly sought out ANPF and has been a reader since 2012. She says she thinks she has died and gone to heaven if she has a play in her hands.
Eric Poppick
Eric recently moved to Medford after spending 40 years in Los Angeles and San Diego, working as an actor and director for stage, television and film. His film/TV credits include Basic Instinct; Mouse Hunt; Single White Female; Hero (with Dustin Hoffman); Seinfeld; Columbo; Curb Your Enthusiasm; NYPD Blue; L.A. Law; General Hospital; and The Young & The Restless. He has performed in over 100 television commercials.
His theatre credits include: From Another House (Old Globe Theatre); BUG; In the Heat of the Night (ion theatre); Beau Jest, Barefoot in thePark(AVO Playhouse); An Enemy of the People(Intrepid Shakespeare Company); Awakeand Sing!; To Kill a Mockingbird; Death of a Salesman; Golden Boy; Four Dogs and aBone(New Village Arts Theatre); The History Boys(Cygnet Theatre); Morning’s atSeven (North Coast Repertory Theatre); The Heir Apparent; The Sunshine Boys; How the Other Half Loves; Deathtrap; Not Now, Darling (Scripps Ranch Theatre) and One for the Road (Lyceum Theatre).
His directing credits include the world premieres of Ripples from Walden Pond (Cygnet Theatre) and W.C. Fields by Himself! (North Coast Repertory Theatre) as well as Play it Again Sam; Over the River and Through the Woods; a feminine ending; Sunset Park; Skin Deep; Good People; and For Better (Scripps Ranch Theatre). Eric has a BFA in acting from Boston University and an MA in directing from The State University of New York.
Jim Risser
Jim is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the retired director of the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists at Stanford University. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Jim reported for 20 years for the Des Moines Register, mostly as the paper’s Washington DC bureau chief until moving to Stanford in 1985. Jim served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1989 to 1999, including service on the Board’s Drama Committee. He was on the board of San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre, and, in 2003, he was elected to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Board of Directors, where he served nine years, including a two-year term as president. His proudest moment there was chairing the search committee that chose Bill Rauch as OSF’s new artistic director. Jim and his wife Sandi started coming to Ashland in the late 1980s to see OSF plays and moved to Ashland in 2004. Both do volunteer work at OSF. They have attended the Ashland New Plays Festival ever since moving to Ashland.
Kate Wolf-Pizor
Since Kate Wolf-Pizor and her husband, Jim, had come to Ashland for years as tourist/theatre goers. Feeling at home and falling in love with Ashland was easy to do. When retirement time rolled around there really wasn’t much discussion about a good place to retire. Five years of being in Ashland has only confirmed a good fit. Ashland is home. Before retirement Kate was a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice and also taught in Palo Alto at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology for seventeen years serving as the chair of the Clinical MA MFT Program. She also spent four years in both the Clinical MA and the MA in Spiritual Guidance Programs. She served on the board of directors of California Division of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy for ten years in several roles, including the presidency.
Kate and Jim share a passion for theatre. They volunteer at OSF and have sponsored plays there for the past three years. Kate has also been a reader for ANPF. Kate’s first love affair was with A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the age of four. After seeing it on stage, her mother bought her a recording of the play and Kate played it constantly, managing to memorize much of the play. This was not good preparation for kindergarten but it did set a life-long love of words and stories and the power of listening in groups in theatres—Kate’s holy places. As a result of Jim and Kate's love of theatre, they managed to raise a theatre-loving family. Those adults now come to Ashland regularly (in fact some of them have moved here).
Kate looks forward to helping to further ANPF’s mission and growth. The magic of theatre can enrich those who do it and those who witness it and keep the deep meaning of our shared lives in motion.
History
The very first Ashland New Plays Festival, held in April 1993, featured a unique collaboration among local theatres. Seven new plays, written by local playwrights, were presented as readings, each in a different venue. The objective was to present new works, giving audiences, actors, and playwrights a role in the evolution of a new play. The catalyst for this groundbreaking event was the 150th anniversary of the Oregon Trail. Each play had to in some way reflect on the themes of heritage, adventure, or human perseverance in pursuit of a goal. The festival was supported in part by the Ashland Visitors and Convention Bureau and the Arts Council of Southern Oregon.
This collaboration among local theatres continued for the next three years. The energy and enthusiasm for a new plays festival culminated in the formation of a board of directors, who in 1996 reorganized a dormant nonprofit company under the name ArtWork Enterprises. One goal was to expand an educational component for both young people and adults; another was to become a major play development resource on the West Coast.
ANPF has evolved through several permutations over the years. It started as a loose collaboration among several local theatres, including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), and eventually became a single nonprofit entity. Its mission, however, has remained remarkably constant. ANPF has always been dedicated to playwrights and the development and enhancement of new works for the theatre, with strong educational and outreach components.
Prior to 1997 as many as eight new works were read, in various venues around town, with submissions limited to playwrights of selected western states; 1997 was a watershed year in that only five plays were on the program, among them David Rambo’s Speaky-Spikey-Spokey. Also in that year, The Magic Fire by Lillian Garrett-Groag (ANPF 1995) premiered at OSF’s Angus Bowmer Theatre. Rambo’s enthusiasm for ANPF led to his subsequent return as host playwright. Robert Koon (ANPF 1999 and 2005) also returned as host playwright, as has E.M. Lewis (ANPF 2008), who was our host playwright from 2010 through 2016. Our current host playwright is Beth Kander (ANPF 2015 and ANPF 2016).
In 1998 a one-week summer program for young playwrights, Fresh Ink, was held. In partnership with faculty from Southern Oregon University (SOU), 20 high school students created an evening of short plays around a single theme. In 2000 playwright Karen Zacarías received the prestigious Helen Hayes Award at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, for her play The Sins of Sor Juana (ANPF 1999). In 2004 ANPF established residency at Oregon Stage Works for the flagship festival and, in conjunction with SOU students, introduced Ashland’s first 10-Minute Play Festival. The 24/7 Project was presented in 2007 and reprised in 2008.
In 2009 the festival was on hiatus as the organization was rebuilt from scratch by a group of recent enthusiasts and board members from its early years. The new board established a nonprofit organization—Ashland New Plays Festival, Inc.—with zero dollars in the bank. Because the 2009 call for scripts had been canceled, it was too late to mount a full-scale national festival, but the new board presented the ANPF Student Spotlight (four staged one-act plays) and a remount of E.M. Lewis’s Song of Extinction (ANPF 2008) at OSF’s Carpenter Hall as fundraisers. In 2010 the traditional festival was back, and the organization has been growing steadily ever since.
Under the guidance of now-retired Artistic Director Douglas Rowe, ANPF expanded its offerings by adding theatrical readings in support of the flagship festival, including David Rambo’s God’s Man in Texas, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Lee Blessing’sA Walk in the Woods, Molly Tinsley’s The Limits of Bliss, William Gibson’s Golda’s Balcony, Richard Manley’s Quietus, Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), and Tom Mula’s Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol. Most of these were one-time productions, but ANPF Theatre Talk interviews, added in 2012, are ongoing, and the ANPF board of directors continues to explore ways to raise funds and bring exciting theatrical events to the Rogue Valley year-round.
Ashland New Plays Festival has remained a small but vital force in the community for over a quarter century. This success is a reflection of the many people who recognize the value of theatre in their lives and believe in the need for a continuous search for new works. ANPF has given scores of playwrights from far and wide the forum to have their fledgling works read before a supportive, knowledgeable, and insightful audience.
For our flagship festival in October, the winning playwrights are in residence for an entire week. During this fertile time, they talk with other playwrights, receive counsel from our host playwright, and have ample opportunities to discuss their plays in informal social settings. Testimonials from past winners attest to the value of our festival—its supportive atmosphere, instant feedback, and emphasis on the words. Additional evidence of the value of the experience is that many winning playwrights continue to submit work to us. Dori Appel, Robert Barnett, Bob Clyman, Leonard Gross, Robert Koon, Richard Manley, James McLindon, Jamie Pachino, Carla Seaquist, Beth Kander, Stephanie Alison Walker, and Ian August are among those whose scripts have won more than once. The success stories of plays emerging from our relatively small festival are too numerous to list here, so we have a Where Are They Now? page that keeps up with past winning plays and playwrights’ awards and world premieres.
ANPF has made its mark both locally and nationally, and from the very beginning three key elements have been necessary for a successful festival: the selection of exciting new plays by exceptional playwrights, world-class directors and actors who bring life to the pages, and the many people behind the scenes who do their parts to make ANPF one of the premier new play festivals in the country.
As we celebrate nearly 30 years, we like to think that the work of the next generation of great American playwrights might begin with a reading at ANPF.
In the News
A look back at ANPF news, reviews, and features:
Ashland Daily Tidings: Backstage with Kyle Haden of Ashland New Plays Festival
“We started Play4Keeps a year and a half ago to take the next step in what Ashland New Plays Festival does: promote playwrights to get their work out there and to reach a broader audience. There are a lot of people outside of this area interested in what we are doing. This is a way to spread that reach.” – ANPF Artistic Director Kyle Haden
Rogue Valley Messenger: Setting the Stage for Morality Conversations: Ashland New Plays Festival presents great plays, but hard questions
“[Ashland New Plays Festival is] a rare and unique glimpse into the process of a script hatching into a fully-staged production—and, for four days this month, four new scripts will showcase some of the best playwriting talent in the country—and with themes that are as engaging as they are thorny.”
Jefferson Exchange: New Plays Fest Presents Fully Staged "Gun Show"
“I didn’t try and go down the middle. I tried to reach out toward both sides and include everybody in the conversation. This is not a centrist play, this is an inclusive play.” - E.M. Lewis on her play The Gun Show
Mail Tribune: Play Tackles Gun Debate in America
"I want to believe we have more in common with each other than what separates us — that there are human values that we hold in common that are larger than the political values that are separating us now,” she said. “But it’s not an easy time. I don’t know how we find common ground except one conversation at a time, one person at a time sitting across a table or sitting in a room together and saying, ‘What connects us?’” - E.M. Lewis
Medford Mail Tribune: Podcasts provide new stage to plays
Medford Mail Tribune: ANPF delves into Emily Dendinger’s “#GodHatesYou”
Jefferson Exchange: New Play on Loveless Church: "God Hates You"
"Theater is at its best when it’s making you think about something that might make you uncomfortable or you don’t want to think about... I’m interested in complicated stories about taboo subjects or people that you think you know or hate, and then really having a conversation… I would never want someone to walk out of one of my plays and be like ‘What a nice play, where should we go for dinner?’" - Chip Walton, Artistic Director of Curious Theatre Company and director of ANPF's workshop of #GodHatesYou by Emily Dendinger
Rogue Valley Messenger: Creating Other Worlds: ANPF Fall Season
Jefferson Public Radio: Scripts + Actors – Sets = New Plays Festival
Ashland Daily Tidings: ANPF board member knows his Pulitzers
Ashland Daily Tidings: ANPF to wrap up Meridith Friedman trilogy
Ashland Daily Tidings: Pulitzer-winning play incubated in Ashland
Martyna Majok wins 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Cost of Living, an ANPF Women's Invitational Winner in 2016
“As an incubator for new plays, to help the next great plays come to fruition, we want to make sure we’re drawing stories from all the best playwrights. There are a lot of stories out there that aren’t being told and viewpoints that aren’t being represented. Since women are the largest group to be under-represented in theater today, shouldn’t we start with them?”
[ANPF Artistic Director Kyle Haden] notes, “It’s a beautiful play. I’ve been excited to watch its journey after our reading here…through its major productions, and now being recognized with one of the highest honors a play can receive. I couldn’t be more thrilled for Martyna.”
Ashland Daily Tidings: ANPF works its magic on ‘Your Best One’
Jefferson Public Radio: Scripts, Actors, and Audiences Converge in Ashland
"The audiences always blow me away with their thoughtfulness... There really is an appetite for new work." - Beth Kander, ANPF host playwright
"What we're doing is part of the core of what theatre has always been." - Jackie Apodaca, ANPF associative artistic director
"We're creating an ensemble pursuit. It's a great opportunity to get the playwrights together." - Kyle Haden, ANPF artistic director
Ashland Daily Tidings: ‘Dark Night’ is full of life’s complications
Jefferson Public Radio: Scripts, Actors, and Audiences Converge in Ashland
Ashland Daily Tidings: ANPF celebrates cream of the crop
Ashland Daily Tidings: What makes a good play?
Ashland Daily Tidings: Helping make Ashland ‘an oasis for playwrights’
Ashland Daily Tidings: ‘Constellations’ playwright a word-smithing star
"Everyone involved brought their best, and Payne is a contemporary voice to be reckoned with, so it’s no surprise that Constellations was a triumphant evening of intimate theater for those of us lucky enough to attend. Let’s hope Ashland New Plays Festival will continue to move in this direction. Constellations was a worthwhile night for all involved."
Ashland Daily Tidings: ‘Translated’ version of ‘Edward III’ works well
"Performed by a group of excellent actors from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the translation to modern verse by award-winning playwright Octavio Solis is a lyrical, sensitive work by a gifted dramatist. Solis has clearly not cut corners in his research into the play. His sharp and inspired version is illuminating, accessible and cleverly executed."
Ashland Daily Tidings: Ashland New Plays Festival presents “Edward III” in modern verse
Jefferson Public Radio: “Shakespeare” Classic Gets New Words
KDRV 12: OSF Beyond the Stage and Into the Community
Ashland Daily Tidings: Ashland New Plays Festival Marks Quarter Century
Ashland Daily Tidings: ANPF Delivers Insights Out of “EdanEv”
Mail Tribune: Ashland New Plays Festival gets personal, political
(Note correction: Festival Passes were available for purchase until October 1 through our newsletter order form.)
Ashland Daily Tidings: Exploring Purple Mountain’s Majesty – and Secrets
Medford Mail Tribune: ANPF Showcases Women Playwrights
Sneak Preview: Kyle Haden and Ashland New Plays Festival
Ashland Daily Tidings: Theater more important than ever
Ashland Daily Tidings: Ashland New Plays Festival seeks out most interesting story telling
Medford Mail Tribune: ANPF brings winning playwrights to Ashland
Jefferson Public Radio: This Season’s Flock: Ashland New Plays Festival
American Theatre magazine: Ashland New Plays Festival Announces Four-Play Program
Medford Mail Tribune: ANPF presents ‘The Little Dog Laughed’
Ashland Daily Tidings: Reading the play’s the thing volunteers do
Medford Mail Tribune: Ashland New Plays Festival is ready to grow, says new director
Ashland Daily Tidings: Ashland New Plays Festival chooses new artistic director
CNN: America’s Best Small Towns
"Wacky and wonderful, Ashland is an arts lover’s dream. It’s home to the Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Ashland New Plays Festival and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the largest regional repertory theater in the United States."
Medford Mail Tribune: Camelot presents Playwright Richard Manley’s A Question of Words
Questions and Words: A Conversation with Richard Manley
Boston Globe: Act 1: We need more women playwrights
"…gender parity is a compelling issue that should command the attention of everyone in theater. Ashland New Plays Festival in Ashland, Ore., just completed its 23d season presenting dramatic readings to enthusiastic audiences of four plays. The works were selected from blind readings of hundreds sent us by playwrights around the country. Approximately one in five we received were from women. Not surprisingly, all four winning plays were written by men. Last year, three of four winners were men.
We need more women playwrights to send us their work. That is a critical first step toward change." - James Pagliasotti, ANPF Board President
Ashland Daily Tidings: Meet the real Jacob Marley
Medford Mail Tribune: Longtime Ashland New Plays Festival artistic director is retiring
Ashland Daily Tidings: New Plays Debut at ANPF
The Jefferson Monthly: Theatre and the Arts
OLLI Forum: Address by ANPF 2014 Artistic Director Douglas Rowe
Medford Mail Tribune: ANPF Presents “In the Next Room”
Ashland Daily Tidings: ANPF Presents “In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)”
Interview with Kate Hurster: Kate Talks about Readings, Ruhl, and Room
Medford Mail Tribune: “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol” One-Man Show Spins Dickens Tale from Marley’s Point of View
Jefferson Public Radio: Ashland New Plays Festival Rolls Out Readings
Medford Mail Tribune: Staged Readings Showcase New Playwrights
The Dramatist: ANPF Names This Year’s Winning Playwrights
Ashland Daily Tidings: When Ethics and Entrepreneurs Collide
Ashland Daily Tidings: Professionally Staged
San Francisco Chronicle: The “Works”: Cary Pepper
The Dramatist: ANPF Names This Year’s Winning Playwrights
Sneak Preview: ANPF 2012 Winning Playwrights
Sneak Preview: Profile of Marketing Director Elizabeth von Radics
Ashland Daily Tidings: AHS Senior Nick Mckernan Wins ANPF scholarship
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
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: A Responsibility to Speak Out
Medford Mail Tribune: Drama Dreams: ANPF Scholarship Winner Aurelia Grierson
Ashland Daily Tidings: Molly Tinsley’s The Limits of Bliss
Medford Mail Tribune: ANPF Offers $500 Scholarship to AHS Graduating Senior
Ashland Daily Tidings: ANPF 2010
Medford Mail Tribune: ANPF 2010
Ashland Daily Tidings: Guest Opinion: New Theatre of Classics
Medford Mail Tribune: Death of a Salesman
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