In\u00a0Exit 27<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, Portland playwright\u00a0Aleks Merilo<\/strong>\u00a0tells a riveting story of\u00a0survival.\u00a0 Since the year 2000, the citizens of one town have abandoned nearly 1,400 boys in the Utah desert\u00a0to reduce the competition for wives in their polygamist community.\u00a0 These young men are called “The Lost Boys of Utah” and Exit 27<\/em> is imagined from\u00a0Aleks’ actual interviews with these true teenage outcasts. Our inaugural student winner is\u00a0Emily Golden<\/strong>, a current senior majoring in English and Theater at Willamette University.\u00a0 Her play,\u00a0The Candlestick Maker<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, is a story about trust, memory and, above all, greed.\u00a0 It explores the relationship between an acclaimed but aging author and the young student to whom her life is irrevocably bound. Exit 27<\/a>\u00a0<\/em> The Candlestick Maker<\/a><\/em> Both readings will be directed by Debbie Lamedman<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWith an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA, Aleks’ plays have been produced in numerous theaters across the country as well as off-off-Broadway.\u00a0 His Blur in the Rear View<\/em> won the James Rogers Playwriting Contest in Lexington, KY and will be produced by North Carolina’s Fly-By-Night Theater in March of 2013.<\/p>\n
\nEmily has seen her plays produced by theaters in Colorado and Washington while her short play, Machine Gun Kathryn<\/em>, was published by Heuer Publishing.<\/p>\n
\nSunday, January 27th at 6:30pm
\nSaturday, February 2nd at 1pm<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSunday, January 27th at 4:30pm
\nSaturday, February 2nd at 11am<\/a><\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3>