The Mating Instinct
3m, 4f. Full-length
Carl, an English teacher in an elite high school, is about to publish his third YA novel, which depicts a romantic liaison between a teacher and a student. When his wife reads an advanced proof and identifies the student in the book as a senior named Mackenzie, she believes the affair is real. And when the proof gets leaked to the student body, suddenly Carl’s job, reputation, and family are all at stake as the line between truth and fiction becomes increasingly blurred.
Workshop Production: 5th Wall Productions, Charleston SC 2018 (as The Mating Instinct )