In the Raw presents Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods

IN THE RAW hosts Tammy Ryan's latest play: Lost Boy Found In Whole Foods

Tammy Ryan, acclaimed Pittsburgh playwright, presents a staged reading of her new play LOST BOY FOUND IN WHOLE FOODS on Monday, April 27 at 7pm at Bricolage 937 Liberty Avenue. This public reading is supported in part by a Seed Award from The Sprout Fund.

LOST BOY FOUND IN WHOLE FOODS tells the story of a woman who meets a Sudanese refugee working in the produce section of Whole Foods and invites him to live with her and her teenage daughter. In the early 90s in Sudan, after civil war destroyed their villages, an exodus of boys trekked across Africa until finding sanctuary in refugee camps in Kenya. In 2001 the US resettled 3,600 of these “Lost Boys.” Their stories have been the subject of numerous books and documentaries. Ryan was inspired to write this play, a work of fiction, after working with Playback Theater and a group of these men in Pittsburgh in 2003. LOST BOY FOUND IN WHOLE FOODS will be further developed at the 2009 New Harmony Project and was a finalist for the 2009 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and Premiere Stages Pla