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Playwright - Poet - Screenwriter
Alaska State Writer Laureate, 2002-2004
Anne Hanley is the first playwright to be named Alaska State Writer Laureate. She lives in Fairbanks, where she is the CEO, staff and maintenance crew of Panache Productions. Anne has an MFA in Film from UCLA and is an associate member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Society of Children's Book Writers. She is a founding producer of The Looking Glass Group Theatre in Fairbanks.
"Anne Hanley is a bold and gifted playwright." - Peggy MacDonald Ferguson, Alaska State Council on the Arts Board Member
A Note from Anne
the book, the play, a poem
I enjoyed compiling The Alaska Reader: Voices from the North with my co-editor Carolyn Kremers. If you live in Alaska, I hope you find some of the writers who inspired you to move here - and stay here. If you don't live in Alaska, I hope you find some new perspectives that take you behind the prevailing myths about the State.
THE ALASKA READER: VOICES FROM THE NORTH, an anthology of Alaskan writing, is available from Fulcrum Publishers. (Click the button at left labeled "BOOK.") To send me your comments on the book, just click on my e-mail address in the top righthand corner of this page.
THE SUNSET CLAUSE played to sellout crowds at Fairbanks Drama Association's Riverfront Theatre in Feb. & March. Since the play deals with end-of-life issues, I was gratified to see so many of those who provide care to the terminally ill at the play. The Feb. 25 performance raised over $1200. for Hospice of the Tanana Valley. Reviewer Robert Hannon said, "Hanley has constructed a wonderfully observed and affecting story."
Short rations of the wild You must stay awake for the visions when they come are brief. A wolf locks eyes with you one heartbeat then disappears. Was he there or did you dream him? Unless you train yourself, you won't be ready when he comes. That moment you mate with your destiny or you don't.
copyright Anne Hanley
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