Last Frontier Theatre Conference
Renamed in 2021, the Valdez 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
Kia Corthron
Richard Dresser
Scott Elliott
Horton Foote
Gary Garrison
Jack Gelber
Jessica Goldberg
John Guare
Rand Higbee
Arlene Hutton
Arthur M. Jolly
Jon Klein
Sherry Kramer
Tony Kushner
Siobhan Gilbert
Romulus Linney
Emily Mann
Terrence McNally
Scott McMorrow
Arthur Miller
Dawson Moore
David Robson
Philip Middleton Williams
August Wilson
Lanford Wilson
Paula Vogel
Y York
== List of notable actors honored and attended ==
Angela Bassett
Frank Collison
John Heard
Judd Hirsch
Laura Linney
Erin Dagon-Mitchell
Patricia Neal
Chris Noth
Lloyd Richards
Ron Rand
Marian Seldes
Libby Skala
Courtney B. Vance
Stockard Channing
Jerry Stiller
Anne Meara

== External links ==
Main Website
NPR coverage of the conference from 2002
More info from UAA