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Aleks Merilo

ALEKS MERILO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Robert A Freedman Dramatic Agency  

Aleks Merilo is an award-winning playwright from Palo Alto, CA. His script, THE SNOWMAKER, was winner of the Playwrights First Award, The Chameleon Theatre Circle new Play Contest, Playhouse on The Squares New Works @ The Works Festival, and was a finalist for the Oregon Play Prize. His Play THE WIDOW OF TOMS HILL played off-broadway at 59E59, where BroadwayWorld called it a truly distinctive piece of theater. His play EXIT 27 was called the best original play to be produced this season by the Houston Chronicle, was voted best new play by BroadwayWorld, Houston, and played most recently at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. He has an MFA in playwriting from UCLA, and is represented by the Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, baby, and dog.

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below is a list of Aleks Merilo's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bloody Mary         Blur in the Rear View         Candyland         Daughter of Donovan         Elephant Shoe         Exit 27         Foul Ball         How To Ruin Monday Night Football         Imaginary Man, The         Little Moscow         System of Dr Tarr and Prof. Fether         Tango Mike         Widow of Tom's Hill
Bloody Mary

Synopsis:
Three girls are playing innocently but dark things underscore the game

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1st Produced:
American Globe Theatre, New York     2008

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Blur in the Rear View

Synopsis:
Jasper suddenly appears one night outside the house of the young woman who may or may not own and may have been his girlfriend. Jasper had not been seen up till this time for eight years

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1st Produced:
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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Candyland

Synopsis:
A real life bizarre and tragic accident in Somalia

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Ten minute play

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Daughter of Donovan

Synopsis:
World War Two and an alcoholic telegram writer is left to look after a fourteen year old girl whilst her Father is fighting abroad. When his letters stop arriving he starts writing them himself.

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JAC Publishing,    

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  ensemble 3 m 2f

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Elephant Shoe

Synopsis:
Seven alienated youths in a park with a stolen radio

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Exit 27

Synopsis:
Citizens of one town have been abandoning thousands of boys in the Utah Desert

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1st Produced:
Sanguine Theater, New York     2013

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Foul Ball

Synopsis:
Upon meeting a writer in an isolated, small town, a arrogant gas station attendant with dreams of playing pro baseball obliviously exposes his numerous betrayals of his best and closest friend.

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1st Produced:
Old Globe Theater In San Diego     1998

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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How To Ruin Monday Night Football

Synopsis:
When a son tells his Father how much he admires him his words are greeted with suspicion

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1st Produced:
Pan Theatre's First Annual Ten Minute Play Festival, San Francisco     2005

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Imaginary Man, The

Synopsis:
London 1888. An atheist doctor believes that God is a psychopath. An invisible killer is stalking the streets

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1st Produced:
Last Frontier Playwright's Conference, Valdez, Alaska     2006

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Little Moscow

Synopsis:
A man recalls his father's love for his country and for his daughter

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1st Produced:
Dubuque Playwrighting Contests     2009

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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System of Dr Tarr and Prof. Fether

Synopsis:
The lunatics take over the asylum

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Based on a short story by Edgar Allen Poe

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tango Mike

Synopsis:
Two retired servicemen negotiate a series of personal crises

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1st Produced:
Prism Festival, Denver     2014

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Widow of Tom's Hill

Synopsis:
A terrible plague hits America in 1918. The military isolated a small town. A young widow and a young sailor play cat and mouse games with their lives and souls

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1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading At Shoebox Theatre, Portland, Or     2011

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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