←Ashland New Plays Festival

"Valid, truthful, riveting, relevant, harrowing, powerful." These are responses from Ashland New Plays Festival audiences after seeing this strong two-hander which is both a compelling story about the nature of truth in the "fake news" era we find ourselves in and an effective production over Zoom. We are excited to support this ANPF 2020 winner and can't wait for a theatre to consider TRUTH BE TOLD for full production.

"Dynamic, exhilarating, nuanced, heartwarming, RAGEFUL - in a good validating way." These are responses from Ashland New Plays Festival audiences after seeing this unique, vivid play about family, about women, about the lessons we learn, and the lessons we want to unlearn. We are excited to support this ANPF 2020 winner and can't wait for a theatre to consider THOSE DAYS ARE OVER for full production.

"Beautiful, heartbreaking, authentic, thoughtful, remarkable, timely, best two hours of Pandemic time." These are responses from Ashland New Plays Festival audiences after seeing this moving, relatable story, which in the words of Jo Twiss (the actor playing Fran), "It isn’t an issue play; it's a family play. You just feel like you know these people." We are excited to support this ANPF 2020 winner and can't wait for a theatre to consider HYANNIS for full production.

"WOW, wise, poignant, true, incredible, America, intellectual romp." These are responses from Ashland New Plays Festival audiences after seeing this powerful story which explores privilege, activism and contentious family relationships that are both timely and constant. We are excited to support this ANPF 2020 winner and can't wait for a theatre to consider THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION: A NINTH-GRADE EUROPEAN HISTORY PROJECT (THERE WILL BE A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION) for full production.

"Visceral, gripping, creative, stunning, powerful, thought-provoking, and hopeful." These are responses from Ashland New Plays Festival audiences after seeing this one-of-a-kind storytelling adventure into hope and hopelessness, angst, addiction, apathy, and acceptance. We are excited to support this ANPF 2020 winner and can't wait for a theatre to consider ZERO for full production.

Donna Hoke is an extraordinarily gifted playwright who comes at her subjects in unexpected ways. We recorded ELEVATOR GIRL at Play4Keeps with three very talented young actors who absolutely killed it. But first they had to talk their way through all the different issues their characters raised for them. Like the big league talent she is, Donna pitches knuckleballs that will have you swinging wildly at your assumptions and thinking long after you've finished this play about all the subtleties and nuances she delivers. We highly recommend it.

This powerful play about the artists Carl Andre, a founder of the Minimalist Art movement, and Ana Mendieta, a Cuban immigrant whose fame in New York art circles begins to eclipse his, examines in retrospect their torrid relationship that led eventually to her fall from the window of their 34th floor Village apartment shortly after they were married. At play4keeps.org, two extraordinary actors, Anthony Heald and Nancy Rodriguez, recorded this dialogue between the aged Andre and the ghost of Mendieta, who has haunted him for decades and now insists they examine together the truth of that fatal evening.

Like Skye Robinson Hillis herself, AND VASTER is smart, witty, charming, provocative, and disarmingly complex. We recorded this beautiful play at www.play4keeps.org with David Kelly and Terri McMahon reprising their lead roles from its reading at ANPF 2015. They were joined by John Pribyl, Tamra Mathias, and Meghan Nealon in telling this tale about how love pushes, stretches, caresses, batters, and never fails to surprise in leading us to places we never suspected we wanted to go. Skye is a playwright to be paid close attention.

NAMING TRUE is a beautiful story about two people from very different places and a distant connection in the past that brings them together. Christiana Clark and Rachel Crowl recorded it for us at play4keeps.org and it's a very powerful experience to hear them bring their characters to life. If you can make it through this play without getting choked up and shedding a few tears, better check to see if your heart's still beating. Natalie Symons' work here is poignant and compelling, with redemption found in even these bleakest of circumstances.

Marin Gazzaniga's fast-paced, funny and touching play will draw you into it's examination of two very different people coming to terms with their lives and each other in ways neither would freely choose. Erica Sullivan and Michael Gabriel Goodfriend recorded this for us at play4keeps.org and it's terrific. Millicent and Sparky aren't all that certain they want anything to do with each other at the outset and by play's end their relationship becomes the unique conduit for what they each need to understand about themselves to get on with their lives.