ABOUT THE SHOW:

Ronald Reagan is a demon. Ronald Reagan is a drag queen. Ronald Reagan is here, queer, and ready to eat you alive.

In a world already burning, Kore tells her lover Julian, her best friend Dante, and Michael (a ghost who died in 1989) that she wants to summon a demon. They assume it’s a metaphor. A coping mechanism. A joke. Then Ronald Reagan arrives…as a demon, as a drag queen…and refuses to stay symbolic.

An O’Neill Semi-Finalist and Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2025 Finalist, Everything, Devoured is a bold, ferocious, and darkly funny ghost story and queer ritual—part drag show, part summoning, part exorcism. As blood spills and the past claws its way into the present, four souls are forced to confront the systems, histories, and desires that haunt them, and decide what must be destroyed in order to survive.

This is a play about facing your demons when they’re wearing a perfectly contoured face and demanding an encore.

ABOUT KATHERINE GWYNN:

Katherine Gwynn (they/them) is a non-binary lesbian, CODA, and Chicago playwright who writes about the bloody heartbeats between the divine and abject. Gwynn is the winner of the 2022 UCROSS + The Blank Theatre – Future of Playwriting Prize and a 2023 Venturous Fellowship Nominee. Gwynn also won the 2015 Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award and Second Place for the EMOS Ecodrama Playwrights festival 2022. Their immersive play CATACOMBS was commissioned by Dorothy, Chicago's only Lesbian cocktail lounge, and sold out its entire run. Their work has been developed and produced by Refracted Theatre, Red Theatre, Flint Rep, Jackalope Theatre, The New Coordinates, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, the Terra Femina Collective, Commission Theatre, The Fishtank, and Rockhurst University. www.katherinegwynn.com

Gwynn has been a 2024 Playwrights Center Core Writer Finalist, a 2024 American Blues Blue Ink Award Semi-Finalist, a Seven Devils 2024 Semi Finalist, a 2021 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist and 2x Semi Finalist, 2021 Playwrights Realm Scratchpad Series Finalist, a 2x Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist and 4x Semi-Finalist, a 2020 Parity Productions Commission Finalist, Finalist, a 2x Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship Semi-Finalist, a 2x Ashland Play Festival Semi-Finalist, a 2x New Works Festival at Kitchen Dog Theater Finalist, a 2020 Story Theatre Resident Playwright Semi-, a 2019 LezPlay Finalist, and a 2x invited Submission for the Humana Festival of New American Plays.

Nu Sass Productions promotes marginalized genders in all aspects of theater, especially in those roles traditionally dominated by cis-men. We explore how disregarding prescribed genders can change the overall experience for the audience. We function as a critical foothold in the theatre world for artists who face discrimination and lose opportunities based on their gender, age, body type, or race. Above all, Nu Sass aims to create engaging, thought-provoking art while being a responsible local and global citizen.