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morgan mcnaught brews new worlds/futures/identities into existence

by redefining convention through queer interpretations of familiar

narratives.

 

obsessed with ritual, pop culture, quantum futures, old ways of knowing, the self as character, the color pink, and site-specific

experience-making, they deftly mix pop culture concepts with new age mysticism, glitter, and millennial nihilism-bringing both engagement and dissonance.

 

working in performance art, video, transmedia, theater, experimental

and collaged text, morgan often collaborates with movement and

dance-based artists-offering text scores, world-building offerings, vibe

synthesis, and intuitive dramaturgy.

 

ensemble-driven, mcnaught works collaboratively with creative and

design teams to collectively create theatrical work that includes all

intelligence and talent within the room.

 

the worlds of their plays are haunted by murderous girl scouts, performance artists trapped in their own work, bunnies who need to go to bed, a sea monster that lives forever on the hudson river, and a haunting site-specific picnic at hanging rock set at the met cloisters.

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from sustained silent book club to pizza writers to co-founding an artist residency, morgan's work seeks to conjure collective spaces for reflection, play, and imagining speculative futures through shared acts

of witnessing.

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morgan has an mfa in playwriting from columbia university in the city of new york, where they were a shubert scholar and studied under david henry hwang, lynn nottage, and chuck mee.

 

they have 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 have appeared in videos for clickhole, everything is terrible, second city's bizco, and the onion.

 

morgan's short plays have been 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. they frequently collaborate as a writer with the wender collective.

 

morgan was also a contributor to the a.v. club's podmass.

 

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