Teen West Project: Year 14 - A Conversation

TEEN WEST PROJECT: YEAR 14

A Conversation with the Playwright

The thrilling tradition of developing new work for the emerging generation continues next season at SouthWest StageWorks with Playwrights West and Teen West Project. Year 14 is going to be incredibly special as we are inviting back the remarkably gifted theatre artist, Conor Eifler, to be our playwright. Even more exciting is that the play will be written to "live" in the same universe as his award winning Teen West: Year 8 play, You Cannot Undo This Action. This will not be a sequel - and will not be dependent on audiences having seen the first play - but will continue and expand upon its themes - themes that remain relevant to our current societal challenges. Think of it as a "companion piece".

The drafting of the play begins soon. Prior to that, the process will commence by having a conversation with Wells students. Conor will be asking questions and will give you a chance to enter into dialogue about various topics...all of which may inform the direction the play takes. Director Matthew B. Zrebski will we acting as the dramaturg for the show and will also be there to take notes and assess.

We sincerely hope many Wells students - drama participants as well as others - returning students next year as well as soon-to-be graduates - will join us for this launch of what is sure to be an invigorating, collaborative project. 

WHEN: 

W 5/21 3:45p - 5:00p

WHERE: 

Room 108 or Auditorium 

(look for signage when you arrive)

NOTE: 

Feel free to leave early if needed or drop in late

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Conor Eifler is a playwright and performer based in Portland Oregon. His plays have been produced by Ars Nova’s ANT Fest, The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway New Play Festival, The Actors Theater of Louisville, TeenWest Project, Action/Adventure Theater, and Nomadic Theater, The Ruben Museum, Portland Center Stage, and at high schools around the country. As an actor he has also performed at most of those companies as well as Oregon Childrens Theater, Lakewood Theater and Dixon Place and elsewhere. He has held residencies with The Verdancy Project, The Make America Project and was the first Playwright In Residence at the University of Portland. He has taught and mentored young writers at Writopia and Lakewood Theater. He holds a B.A. from the University of Portland and apprenticed at Actors Theatre of Louisville. His play You Cannot Undo This Action was published by Stage Partners and won the Angus Bowmer prize for Drama as part of the 2021 Oregon Book Awards and was a finalist for the Lanford Wilson Award for Best New American Play. His writing has appeared in The Northwest Review, The Verdancy Project Anthology and on his friend’s refrigerators. When not making theater he is a banjo-picker, an avid reader, and a long distance walker.