Student
playwrights at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, will
soon see their writing included in an anthology for all to read.
"My
#*%!^X%#! College Life,” which includes 40 monologues and some
choruses from 17 of the university's students as well as a dozen
other writers from around the country, will be published by Dramatic
Publishing. It is the culmination of two years of work by
Transylvania Professor Michael Dixon and graduate Brooke Jennett, who
won the 2016 Dramatists Guild of America Young Playwright
Award.
Dixon and Jennett read through more than 200
submissions to select and sequence those chosen into an hour-long
performance that covers topics like social justice, gender identity,
relationship boundaries and roommate etiquette.
“Throughout this
creative process, Brooke and I have wanted the play to address a
broad range of concerns identified by college students today,”
Dixon said. “This dramatic journey reveals the difficult choices
and revelatory encounters that lead to what colleges call ‘personal
transformation,’ which is generally beneficial, but as this
material attests, it’s never easy to change at any age, and the
individual outcomes are absolutely unpredictable.”
Although no
publication date has as yet been announced, the university’s theater program will read from the work over the March 30-April 2 weekend.
Anthology includes work by Transylvania students
