Naked Angels (theater company)

The company has produced plays on controversial social topics, including the critically acclaimed Broadway transfer Next Fall, and has featured many Hollywood stars.

Naked Angels originated in a former picture-frame factory on West 17th Street in Manhattan which quickly became a prominent venue for a generation of emerging young actors and playwrights.

The company is also known for its "Tuesdays@9" cold reading series, where new playwrights, novelists, short-story writers, and actors gather to review works in progress.

Based on these stagings, Fox executives chose to turn some of the one-act plays into pilot scripts for the primetime network.

[1] Naked Angels runs New York City's longest-running cold reading series for new works-in-progress.