Savior Complex (Stage Play) premiered at the McJunkin Building in Chicago, May 2026
Savior Complex is an immersive, site-specific tragedy set entirely within an office building. Drawing on the tropes and aesthetics of gay mafia erotica novels, a genre characterized by power, desire, loyalty, and violent consequence, the play uses these conventions as a lens through which to examine something far more urgent: the structural violence and economic oppression that shape the lives of trans people in America today.
“I wanted Savior Complex to feel as real as possible. There are so few plays that take place in the literal place they’re written to be in, with the actors two feet away from the audience.”
Morris McLennan is a Chicago-based writer with a love for punchy and absurdist queer narratives. He holds a BFA in Playwriting from DePaul University. He is the recipient of the Zach Helm Endowed Playwriting Scholarship, the Bundschu Award, a DeGroot Foundation Writer of Note award, a Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Individual Artist Project grant, a Robert Chelsey/ Victor Bumbalo Foundation Award, a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency, a Cottonwood Residency, and a MAP Fund grant. His plays have been workshopped & produced with the support of DePaul University, King’s College, DCASE, Pocket Theatrics, Cypress Productions, Gender Fucked Productions, and The Tank. His writing has appeared in Adelaide, The B’K, underscore_magazine, The Gay & Lesbian Review, and more.
Visit Morris’ website: www.morrismclennan.net
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