John McDonald
Currently living in Chicago while attending SAIC for my Writing MFA, you've likely seen one of my shorter works through The Fertile Ground Festival, PDX Playwrights, Tiny Theatre, or The Pulp Stage. My goal is to find the capital and place in order to stage bigger works and ultimately become a luminary akin to Stephen Sondheim or Tennessee Williams.
Many of my plays are overtly queer with...
Currently living in Chicago while attending SAIC for my Writing MFA, you've likely seen one of my shorter works through The Fertile Ground Festival, PDX Playwrights, Tiny Theatre, or The Pulp Stage. My goal is to find the capital and place in order to stage bigger works and ultimately become a luminary akin to Stephen Sondheim or Tennessee Williams.
Many of my plays are overtly queer with queer themes. Though not in a way that would alienate all audiences. That being said, I have found that some notions in the queer world do rattle straight theatergoer cages.
I endeavor to write plays that matter. Be it a queer fairy tale, a bdsm look at monk culture, science fiction dystopian heartbreak, or simply a complicated relationship between two gay men- it's about the wit, the heart, and what is truth (if you can find it). Join me on the journey. Let's learn from each other and become better than we once were.
My most recent works (including old works edited or reformatted) begin here at the top. It's all organized chronologically and eventually, everything will be at the top which was once at the bottom. Isn't that just the way of the world?