Alaska Native Heritage Center

First Alaskans Magazine Article.pdf

ANHC Brochure.pdf

This project will identify and gather new Alaska Native playwrights, providing them instruction and mentorship by noted professional North American Native theater artists, nurturing them through the process of creating stage-ready scripts. Ten Alaska Native artists, novice playwriting candidates, will be selected through a competitive process in which a proposal for a play is judged by a national reading panel. Participants attend a 5-day playwriting workshop at ANHC, where they receive instruction on the fundamentals of writing for the stage from Native theatre professionals from across the country. Participants are then matched with teacher-mentors and spend the next seven months writing a full-length play.