ABOUT US

Anchorage Press PLAYS, Inc serves a specialty field of TYA: Theatre for Young Audiences. We publish play scripts and license the performance rights for plays to be presented, by skilled performers, before audiences of children, youth, teens, and young adults or a family audience.

Anchorage also has a limited number of plays of faith that are more suitable for a family audience or teen/adult audience in subject complexity.

Representing the playwrights of these works, Anchorage serves as the licensing agency for the performance rights.

We also publish and distribute a select number of books for the field.

History

Founded in 1935 by Sara Spencer as The Children’s Theatre Press, the renamed Anchorage Press (of Louisville) was the first publishing house to concern itself primarily with quality theatrical literature for young audiences. Orlin Corey, of New Orleans, took the helm as Editor and Publisher from 1977-2000 during which time the play script publication list increased and play anthologies and textbooks supporting the fields of TYA, theatre design and theatre education were added. In July of 2000, Anchorage Press became Anchorage Press PLAYS and moved back to Louisville, Kentucky with Marilee Hebert Miller as Publisher/Editor.

Anchorage Press PLAYS believes our treasure is our writers who use their imagination and skill to speak to the creative child within us all.

Anchorage Press PLAYS supports
The Children’s Theatre Foundation of America
The Children’s Theatre Foundation of America (CTFA), founded in 1958 seeks to advance the artistic and professional interests of theatre for children and youth, and theatre education for the young. The Foundation pursues its goals by funding proposals of artists, scholars, and special projects of national import to the field. The Medallion Award of the Foundation honors significant achievement.

The CTFA is a 501-C3 charitable foundation. All gifts are tax deductible.  Please consider a charitable gift to honor someone who has touched your life through the joy of theatre for youth.

Photo: The Pied Piper of Hamlin