The Troupe

Genre: School-Set Dramedy / Dark Comedy

Setting: A public high school theatre department

Target Audience: Adults 18-65, fans of character-driven dramedies, school stories, theatre-world satire, teacher-student ensemble films, and emotionally sharp coming-of-age stories

Comps: The Holdovers (damaged teacher and young people), Whiplash (artistic rigor versus abuse), Theater Camp (theatre-kid ecosystem and ensemble comedy)

Logline: When a washed-up method actor takes over a high school theatre troupe fighting to save its stage and pushes Jude, a guarded trans student, into the center of a censored production, his brutal old-school standards collide with students fluent in boundaries and self-protection, forcing everyone to confront where artistic rigor ends and harm begins.