morgan mcnaught

morgan mcnaught brews new worlds/futures/identities into existence by redefining convention through queer interpretations of familiar narratives. they deftly mix pop culture concepts with new age mysticism, glitter, and millennial nihilism-bringing engagement and dissonance. ensemble-driven, mcnaught works collaboratively with creative and design to collectively create a theatrical work, inclusive of all intelligence and talent within the room

morgan has an MFA in playwrighting, from Columbia University, where they were a Shubert scholar and studied under David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage & Chuck Mee. morgan has a BFA in performance and studied playwriting under the late and great Esiba Irobi at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

They have performed at club cumming, Steppenwolf and with The...

morgan mcnaught brews new worlds/futures/identities into existence by redefining convention through queer interpretations of familiar narratives. they deftly mix pop culture concepts with new age mysticism, glitter, and millennial nihilism-bringing engagement and dissonance. ensemble-driven, mcnaught works collaboratively with creative and design to collectively create a theatrical work, inclusive of all intelligence and talent within the room

morgan has an MFA in playwrighting, from Columbia University, where they were a Shubert scholar and studied under David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage & Chuck Mee. morgan has a BFA in performance and studied playwriting under the late and great Esiba Irobi at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

They have performed at club cumming, Steppenwolf and with The Goodman, the Second City, Chicago Dramatists, Victory Gardens, The Fly honey show, About Face, ART-AIDS America, The Guild Literary Complex, and has done videos for ClickHole, Everything Is Terrible and Second City’s BizCo and the Onion. Morgan's short plays have performed at the Victory Gardens One Minute Fest, First Floor Theater, and their first full-length play The Terrible, was produced at the New Colony. Morgan frequently collaborates as a writer with the wender colective.

They are currently working on a ton of plays, writing a full-length novel, and giggling in the back.

Scripts

terrible things (aka the terrible).

by morgan mcnaught

Cast Size

4

Genre

adaptation,

dark comedy,

experimental

Woolfe is a performance artist whose final art installation is filming her own drowning via an iPhone and an internet stream. She expects this to be her comment on life, and all the crap that goes along with it. What she doesn’t expect is to wake-up shortly thereafter in a room with three other people. Christopher is a likely gay, mostly confused man whose life was cut short by a bullet to the brain. Gertrude is...

Woolfe is a performance artist whose final art installation is filming her own drowning via an iPhone and an internet stream. She expects this to be her comment on life, and all the crap that goes along with it. What she doesn’t expect is to wake-up shortly thereafter in a room with three other people. Christopher is a likely gay, mostly confused man whose life was cut short by a bullet to the brain. Gertrude is a woman who lost her child to another woman during the days before World War II. Everyone present is being guided through counseling sessions led by Fred. While Sartre’s masterwork posits that Hell is other people, Fred’s methods and cruelty may lead one to believe that Hell is only one person, and that is Fred. Or, perhaps just therapists as a class of people.

camp champ

by morgan mcnaught

Cast Size

4—6

Genre

adventure,

comedy,

dark comedy,

fantasy

camp champ, is a dark comedy about a bitchy but wildly competent West LA Girl Scout
Troop, one of the last communities left in the world. they are on a pre-destined
mission to save the last of humanity, that is, if they can sacrifice their crush.

Mary-Kate, Cordelia, and Regan adventure through the wastelands of
California, facing radioactive poison ivy, the monster at the bottom of
the Salton Sea, and a...

camp champ, is a dark comedy about a bitchy but wildly competent West LA Girl Scout
Troop, one of the last communities left in the world. they are on a pre-destined
mission to save the last of humanity, that is, if they can sacrifice their crush.

Mary-Kate, Cordelia, and Regan adventure through the wastelands of
California, facing radioactive poison ivy, the monster at the bottom of
the Salton Sea, and a shortage of Marlboros.
When they find themselves at a deserted camp site, overgrown and way
too spooky, they discover that just because you earned a badge in
something, it doesn’t mean you are ready to face it in real life.