the/your best new americxn artist

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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. 

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ensemble driven, mcnaught works collaboratively with creative and design to collectively create a theatrical work, inclusive of all intelligence and talent within the room

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morgan has an MFA in playwrighting, from Columbia university in the city of new york where they were a Shubert scholar, and studied under David henry hwang, lynn nottage & chuck mee.

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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.

 

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.