Carly J. Bales and Hunter Hoffman Photo by Randy Phillip	Sarah Holt as Miss Edwards and Hunter Hoffman as Joe Marks Photo by Randy Phillip

ABOUT THE PLAY:  Sex and syntax converge in this smart and scintillating comedy. Written by award-winning Los Angeles playwright Lissa Levin. Directed by Matt Ripa, the play met with standing ovations as Doorway Arts Ensembles entry in last year’s Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival. This world premiere production tells the story of Joe Marks, a basketball star whose college scholarship is suddenly in jeopardy when his attempt to pass a lascivious note to Hannah, his cheerleader girlfriend, is intercepted by his high school English teacher, Miss Edwards. With nothing to lose as she bids farewell to her teaching career, she puts an unorthodox approach to the test to see if she can light an intellectual flame under one last underachiever.

LISSA LEVIN [playwright] is a playwright, librettist/lyricist, and a 24-year veteran of television as a writer/producer.  As the librettist for TWIST OF FATE, her first musical, Levin won the Kleban Award, The L.A. Weekly's Musical of the Year, two L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, and a nomination for the Ovation Award for Best Musical. Her one-act play, SEX AND EDUCATION, was a finalist in New York's THE OPEN BOOK competition.  It received a staged reading in the Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival 2009 by Doorway Arts Ensemble and has had several readings in Los Angeles. Television writing and producing credits include Emmy-nominated  MAD ABOUT YOU, CHEERS, WKRP IN CINCINNATI, FAMILY TIES, BROTHERS (CableACE Award nomination), COMPLETE SAVAGES (Mel Gibson, Co-Executive Producer), the UPN drama, LIVE SHOT, THUNDER ALLEY (with Ed Asner and Haley Joel Osment), A DIFFERENT WORLD, and ALL IN THE FAMILY spin-off, GLORIA.

MATT RIPA [director] is a freelance director in Silver Spring, Maryland. His recent credits include; director, creator and actor for a performance piece in the Source Theater Festival 2010 for which he received a grant from the Cultural Development Corporation, Assistant Director to Michael Dove for ANGLES IN AMERICA with Forum Theatre which received many Helen Hayes nominations and 2 awards, Assistant Director for IN THE HEART OF AMERICA with Rep Stage that received 2 Helen Hayes Award nominations and was featured in American Theatre Magazine. Matt has worked with Landless Theatre Company, Imagination Stage, Forum Theatre, Rorschach Theatre Company, Washington Shakespeare Company, The Hub and Traveling Players Ensemble among many others. He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Misfit Theatre Company in Washington, DC and an Artistic Associate with Doorway Arts Ensemble.  Matt is a graduate from the Catholic University of America where he received his MFA in Directing.

CAST:  Sarah Holt as Miss Edwards, Hunter Hoffman as Joe Marks, and Carly J. Bales as Hannah

PRODUCTION TEAM:  Claire Myles, Executive Producing Director; Kirsten Parker, Production Stage Manager/Set/Properties and Costuming; Reuben Rosenthal, Light/Sound/Graphics and Photography; Rachel Zucker, Assistant Production Stage Manager