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.
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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