Alaska Overnighters playwriting event

September 5, 2018

University Relations

The Alaska Overnighters is coming back to Fairbanks. This play-in-a-day marathon will feature four new one-act plays written, rehearsed and brought to the stage within 24 hours. The plays will be performed on Saturday, September 29, at 8 p.m. in the Sailsbury Theatre. Tickets are pay-what-you-can.

Four playwrights will receive a topic and be assigned a cast at 8 p.m. Friday night. They then stay up that night crafting never-before-seen short plays. At 8 a.m. Saturday morning the casts receive their new scripts and spend the day rehearsing. By 8 p.m. they are off-book and ready to perform!

Get involved

There will be a meeting on Friday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. at the Salisbury Theatre green room, where actors will receive their casting assignments, writers their theme, and crews will get their job assignments. The writers will write all night. Everyone else should get a good night's sleep, because rehearsals, costumes and set preparation begin at 8 a.m. Saturday.

Theatre UAF will provide a box lunch at noon. Let us know if you have special dietary needs. There will be a dinner break (dinner not provided). The rest of the day will be spent rehearsing and getting off-book. The shows will be performed at 8 p.m.

To participate, contact Dawson Moore at dawsonguy@juno.com.

This program has been running in Anchorage biannually since 2002, and was originally brought to Alaska by Dawson Moore, the coordinator of the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference. Since then they have produced 263 new plays by 66 different authors. In Anchorage, the Alaska Overnighters are produced by TBA Theatre. It was produced locally by the Fairbanks Drama Association in 2012. For more information about the project and its history, visit www.dawsonmoore.com/overnighters.html.