The Last Frontier Theatre Conference is an annual conference on American Theatre held in Valdez, Alaska that focuses on playwrighting. Continually held each year since 1993, the conference puts out a call for play submissions, requesting playwrights from around the country to send one-act plays and full-length plays for consideration. Selected plays are read by actors in front of an audience, then each play is critiqued by professionals, academics in theatre, and audience members.
The Conference provides a series of workshops, symposia, theatrical productions, and panels at which participants have the opportunity to study with award-winning playwrights, directors, producers, and actors, as well as scholars and critics. The Call for Plays is the first step toward the conference’s mission to develop new voices and provide students with the opportunity to interact in a workshop setting with some of the greatest luminaries in the American Theatre.
List of notable playwrights honored and attended
- Edward Albee
- Robert Woodruff Anderson
- Scott Elliott
- Horton Foote
- Gary Garrison
- Jack Gelber
- Jessica Goldberg
- John Guare
- Jon Klein
- Tony Kushner
- Romulus Linney
- Emily Mann
- Terrance McNally
- Scott McMorrow
- Arthur Miller
- Dawson Moore
- August Wilson
- Lanford Wilson
- Paula Vogel
List of notable actors honored and attended
- Angela Bassett
- John Heard
- Laura Linney
- Shane Mitchell
- Wayne Mitchell
- Patricia Neal
- Chris Noth
- Lloyd Richards
- Ron Rand
- Marian Seldes
- Libby Skala
- Courtney B. Vance
External links
- Main Website
- NPR coverage of the conference from 2002
- Review of the conference by an attendee
- More info from UAA
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