This is How you Got Me Naked or My Sexy Fairytale

by Catherine Weingarten

FULL LENGTH, A college freshman is determined to get her BFF to notice her in a hot way at her hipster college's annual "Dress to Get Laid Party." But when he finally does-things don't turn out exactly how she hoped. This dark comedy explores the pressure of hookup culture and also reminds us that hopefully at the end of the day our friends are there to catch us when we fall...even if it's not in a hot way.

FULL LENGTH, A college freshman is determined to get her BFF to notice her in a hot way at her hipster college's annual "Dress to Get Laid Party." But when he finally does-things don't turn out exactly how she hoped. This dark comedy explores the pressure of hookup culture and also reminds us that hopefully at the end of the day our friends are there to catch us when we fall...even if it's not in a hot way.

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This is How you Got Me Naked or My Sexy Fairytale

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  • Steven Strafford: This is How you Got Me Naked or My Sexy Fairytale

    If you want to drop into another world, a world where getting to have sex with that hot boy at the party is the be all and end all, stop into this world of kids who want to have sex and make art, and they're all out of art... Catherine Weingarten has built a world with a language all its own that lives deep in the awkward place between childhood and adult life.

    If you want to drop into another world, a world where getting to have sex with that hot boy at the party is the be all and end all, stop into this world of kids who want to have sex and make art, and they're all out of art... Catherine Weingarten has built a world with a language all its own that lives deep in the awkward place between childhood and adult life.

  • Allyson Dwyer: This is How you Got Me Naked or My Sexy Fairytale

    A modernly funny play, but also incredibly theatrical, and wondrous, and full of surprises. Catherine does an incredible job of ruminating not just on how painful it is for young women to navigate their sexuality, but also how absurd, especially with the added complicated layer of detached, millennial irony that seems to now permeate all of our communications. It's hard not to shiver at how real some of this is, but that makes it that much more powerful!

    A modernly funny play, but also incredibly theatrical, and wondrous, and full of surprises. Catherine does an incredible job of ruminating not just on how painful it is for young women to navigate their sexuality, but also how absurd, especially with the added complicated layer of detached, millennial irony that seems to now permeate all of our communications. It's hard not to shiver at how real some of this is, but that makes it that much more powerful!

  • Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn: This is How you Got Me Naked or My Sexy Fairytale

    An absurdist descent into youth and their desire to connect. In poetic textspeak, the characters take us on a journey through an evening of hook-ups and self-discovery. Scene 7 is a delightful, almost operatically staged sex scene. I could almost hear the lines sung from the characters' individual spotlights.
    This would be a fun show to "mount"and even more fun to watch.

    An absurdist descent into youth and their desire to connect. In poetic textspeak, the characters take us on a journey through an evening of hook-ups and self-discovery. Scene 7 is a delightful, almost operatically staged sex scene. I could almost hear the lines sung from the characters' individual spotlights.
    This would be a fun show to "mount"and even more fun to watch.

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Character Information

  • Monday
    freshman, really intense, hyper sexual, really into friendship.
    Character Age
    18, but can be played by an actress in late teens-20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Cisgender Female
  • Johnsonian
    Monday’s kinda boyfriend, very brooding, à la Wuthering Heights.
    Character Age
    35
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Cisgender Male
  • Jackie
    freshman, dorky, uber romantic, loves making spoon sculptures
    Character Age
    18, but can be played by an actress in late teens-20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Cisgender Female
  • Alaska
    junior, dance major, obsessed with his body because his mother was a dancer,
    Character Age
    20, but can be played by an actor in late teens-20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Cisgender Male

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Ohio University MFA Full Length Lab, Year 2016

Production History

  • Type Workshop, Organization Candy 4 Breakfast, Year 2019
  • Type University, Organization Ohio University Seabury Quinn Playwrights festival, Year 2017