"The Last Play Standing Competition was a lot of fun and allowed me to further develop my play with a great bunch of people. The review was concise and comprehensive and the feedback very valuable for development. The company was candid, frank and supportive, and I would recommend this competition as a very helpful tool in developing a play."
Annette Lee, Happy Talk Winner LPS 3
All feedback on something you've written is good feedback, but feedback from the crew working on THE LAST PLAY STANDING is better. They came at me with strong opinions on what they thought about my play Namaste, but were respectful enough to know it was personal. Encouraging not degrading, LPS made me want to get into rewrites, rather than dreading the thought. Most importantly. ACT understands that my job as a writer is to bring my own idea's and stories to life through the script, and that their job is not to rewrite my story, but to shed light on it from a production company's point of view to help me get my show closer to something a greater audience will enjoy. Instead of "Suit critiques artist," working with ACT was "Artists helping artist."
Joe McClean Round 2 Finalist LPS 3 "The workshops were very effective in exploring the motivation in the text and accomplished quite a bit in such a short time."
David Alex, Onto Infinity, Jeff Committee Member, ITA Secretary, and Award Winning Playwright"Keith Beck is definitely one of the most talented directors that I've run across and the actors are extremely well trained. During the readings, I sat next to patrons of live theater in Chicago and they were amazed, like me, at the depth of [his] ability to bring out the best of each scene with so little preparation. "
Nikos Vlachos, Finalist The Bed, Award Winning Playwright
