←Recommendations of 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.

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!

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.

Saw this wonderful play staged last year in Manhattan. Unapologetically weird and brimming with life, Weingarten's dialogue and perspective is truly unique.

This was a gloriously hilarious read. Rich satire with characters that are, at once, blazingly outlandish and full of nuance and heart. A well-observed, theatrically heightened view of relationships, longing, intimacy, and small liberal arts colleges. This had me in stitches throughout, but some of the scenes, particularly Jackie and Alaska's direct-address-"duet" of sorts rang with the brilliant truthfulness of totally uncensored inner life. I hope to see this someday!

Catherine Weingarten writes with one of the most singular voices you’ll read on NPX. Her work is instantly identifiable. The outlandish characters she brandishes in “This Is How You Got Me Naked” are frenetic pinballs, bouncing wildly off of one another... each deeply longing for connection in a world of casual hookups. Weingarten’s dialogue is bonkers and silly and awesome... and just when you think it couldn’t possibly be, it turns achingly poetic. Trash bags. Caution tape. Spandex and spoon sculptures. This writer knows how to party.

I had the pleasure of working as the ASM for this production at Ohio University and I have to say that this made me feel less alone in my adventures through the college. Catherine's comedy reads through absurdity and deeply relatable content that leaves me pleasantly confused in one minute and cathartically exposed in the next. To me, this comedy is important because it leaves young women feeling like their experiences are not isolated, but shared.

Saw a workshop of this play at Alchemical Studios in New York City and had an absolute blast! This play is hysterically trashy yet packs a ton of heart. To paraphrase her character Alaska, this play 'earned the laughter. It earned it so hard.'

A hilarious brew of bad personal decisions and good sartorial advice - Catherine is an alchemist, she spins crushed aluminum into solid gold.

I'm usually not a big fan of sex farces, but I love this play to pieces. Two years later, I'm still thinking about how fun the Ohio University workshop production of this play was. I'd love to see the play done again!