i can fix him

Enter the seedy underbelly of an early-2010s Jewish day school and meet mafiosos Freddie, Donna, Sylvia, and Jane — members of an exclusive after school fan club that serves as a front for a successful fan fiction laundering ring. They'll write anything for you, for a price.

i can fix him is about being a fan, being an uncool girl, and navigating befriending your fellow uncool girls.
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  • Jack McManus:
    13 Apr. 2024
    "I can fix him" should be the first play to use the word Johnlock on a Broadway stage. And if that word elicits a deep shiver down the base of your spine, this is the play for you. Filled with memorable characters, this play is a love letter to weird girls and the things that are important to them. Leiber plays up the stakes to create a narrative that is tense and compelling. Every issue in these girls lives are treated with grave importance- leading to strong laughs and strong emotions.
  • Zoe Senese-Grossberg:
    5 Oct. 2023
    A play that both treats its absurd subject matter with empathy and self seriousness while always having the ability to turn around and laugh along with them. "i can fix him" GETS these types of teenage girls, gets the need behind their boy worship, and loneliness they fill with self importance. It tells a story relying well on the tropes of both mob and high school movies, chock full with betrayals, schemes, and an impenetrable social code, but so effectively uses the theatrical medium. Very producible and skin crawlingly relatable.
  • Sam Heyman:
    18 Jan. 2023
    As someone who was never a teen girl, but who navigated fandom, fraught friendships and feelings all while being a young writer, Sarah Jae Leiber’s "i can fix him" made me bust my gut as often as it punched me in the gut. The Mean Girls-meets-The Sopranos energy, the message about the meaningful nature of being a fan filled with complicated feelings, the pitch-perfect characterization -- all of these ingredients come together to produce an excellently funny, thoughtful play. Highly recommended for fans of all ages!