Exit 27 by Aleks Merilo
Winner, the Inkslinger Playwriting Competition, Louisiana University
Winner, Project Playwright, The Sanguine Theater
Winner, New by Northwest Playwriting Contest, CoHo Productions
Winner, Best New Play, Broadway World, Houston
Finalist, Woodward/Newman Award For Playwriting, Bloomington Playwrights Project
[Full-Length] Since the year 2000, the citizens of one town...
Winner, the Inkslinger Playwriting Competition, Louisiana University
Winner, Project Playwright, The Sanguine Theater
Winner, New by Northwest Playwriting Contest, CoHo Productions
Winner, Best New Play, Broadway World, Houston
Finalist, Woodward/Newman Award For Playwriting, Bloomington Playwrights Project
[Full-Length] Since the year 2000, the citizens of one town have abandoned nearly fourteen hundred boys in the Utah Desert. They are called the Lost Boys of Utah. EXIT 27 is based on their stories.
"EXIT 27 is by far the best original play to be produced this season. Remember the name Aleks Merilo. He has written one of the most astounding, suspenseful, and enlightening plays of the season."
-Buzz Belmont, Houston Chronicle
“This resoundingly incredible play deftly moved me more than anything I have ever witnessed, stirring my mind and breaking my heart many times and on many different levels…I sat stoically through the first third of the first act, doing my best to control my emotions…Yet, as James Monaghan's Dodge delivered his first monologue, I lost myself. Silent tears streamed down my face throughout the remainder of the first act, as I was left utterly bereft and broken…”
- David Clarke, BroadwayWorld.com