LOGLINE:
A theatre director must figure out an equation to solve the problem of a love square (not triangle) turned sexual misconduct scandal between another director and their two actresses - both cast for a role in a new one-woman show.


RUNNING TIME:
60 Minutes

SYNOPSIS:
Not long before #metoo takes off, a budding screenwriter turned theatre writer/director named Sean is flying wobbly beneath the wing of stage veteran William, a cocksure and obnoxious mansplainer with an ego twice the size of his big head. They are collaborating on a new one-woman show about an actress exposing her hatred of monologues as it correlates to her love of gay men.

The two women cast are Pam, a determined and self-conscious hardworking older newcomer, and her counterpart, Michaela, a conceited, spoiled, diva from Gen Z. Separately - in totally different ways, they work together with the male directors to discover the pith of this strong female lead during rehearsals.

After several tenuous bouts of repetitive takes of the same monologue, it’s discovered that there is something going on under the surface between the four; feelings are aroused and sexual tension is amidst. Seemingly, William wants Pam, Pam wants Michaela, Michaela wants Sean and Sean wants William.

In the second scene, they are having a post-rehearsal drink and talking shop about the nature and drama of backstage life. After William and Michaela go off on an impromptu tryst, Sean, originally quietly waiting in the wings avoiding center stage, confounds Pam with an offer she never saw coming. This is the dream role she’s been hoping her whole life to play. He admits that his writing of this one-woman show about a woman in love with gay men was a ruse to try and get her to fall in love with him and that William, his confidant was in on it the entire time, also that he’s been pretending to be gay hoping it would help him to court her. Pam is left with a conundrum and decides to play along for the greater good.

In scene three, some time has passed and the dust hasn’t yet settled involving Pam’s reporting to the powers that be of William’s constant sexually charged indiscretions. MICHAELA has happily taken on the one woman show all to herself - the only topic she is interested in talking about with Sean who is trying to figure out the backstory headliner Pam has begun to shed. Michaela exposes her scathing side of the story in an effort to empathize but ends up right back to her usual narcissistic self after a quick beat.

In the final scene, Pam confronts William in an attempt to explain herself and offer a quid pro quo. What starts as a heartfelt resolution turns out to be the beginning of a new abominable scandal altogether. As it turns out, WILLIAM was the mastermind of all masterminds, and his plan was to latch onto the cash cow involved with the advent of sexual misconduct scandals in the entertainment industry. God bless America!