Doug Leibowitz (Will Brill) is an ostensibly mild-mannered but deeply disillusioned middle school theater teacher and once maybe promising playwright. When the Cedarhurst Middle School teacher is forced to confront the reality that his ex-girlfriend Abigail (Gillian Jacobs), who he thought he was still “on a break” with, has started dating the smarmy, aggressively politically correct school principal Brady (Rob Lowe), Doug suffers a near-total mental breakdown. In a bid for revenge and recognition, Doug decides to tank the school’s reputation, and alongside it Principal Brady’s, as the two are competing for a blue ribbon of academic excellence. To do so, Doug shelves his class’s production of West Side Story in favor of a secret musical he wrote about 9/11. Read More