The Mag 7

By day, they are mild-mannered, early-career playwrights, but for four Equity Approved Showcase weeks in mid-winter, they come together each night (well, every Thursday through Sunday) to fight ennui and their label as “promising.” Their super heroic efforts will be manifest each night in seven plays that range from the esoteric to the sublime to an STD clinic. They are The Mag 7: Louis Cancelmi, Graham Gordy, John Kim, Heather MacDonald, Itamar Moses, Hugh Murtagh, and Deirdre O’Connor.

Now in its 20th season, Naked Angels was started by a collective of restless and ambitious actors, writers, directors, designers reacting to a void in the theater community for new and creative voices. The company took its name from John Tytell’s book, Naked Angels, which referred to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and the other Beats as a “generation that wanted to break out of convention and scream.” As a young group, the company felt the same way; it needed a place where, through the medium of theater, it could show the world a different perspective on our times.

Artistic Director Jenny Gersten
Producer Patricia McGuire
Stage Manager Rhonda Picou
Technical Director Joshua Higgason

Shows include:

The Handlers
Writer Louis Cancelmi
Director Glynis Rigsby
Dale Tim Cummings
Stan Bill Cwikowski

Waning Poetic
Writer Graham Gordy
Director Jonathan Bernstein
Chip Erik Jensen

Orange Alert
Writer John Kim
Director Kerry Whigham
Molly Kelly Hutchinson
George Sam Breslin Wright

Waiting
Writer Heather MacDonald
Director Julia Gibson
Jen Erin McMonagle
Dan Eric Miller
Phil Tom Riis Farrell

Untitled
Writer Itamar Moses
Director Michelle Tattenbaum
“Reader” Gideon Banner

A Twist So Shocking…
Writer Hugh Murtagh
Director Dave Dalton
Miranda Abbie Killeen
Telly Michael Crane

Penicillin
Writer Deirdre O’Connor
Director Dave Dalton
John James McMenamin
Jenny Nancy McNulty