Figuring Out Will
In a world full of emotional pitfalls, one geeky teen will join forces with his two best friends to
In a world full of emotional pitfalls, one geeky teen will join forces with his two best friends to face his insecurities and escape the friend zone.
About the Play
In a world full of emotional pitfalls, one geeky teen will join forces with his two best friends to face his insecurities and escape the friend zone by realizing it never even existed in the first place. Comedy. Drama. Doritos. Get ready to figure out Will.
“Figuring Out Will” is a coming-of-age story that made its debut at the NYSummerfest Theater Festival at the Hudson Guild Theater in Manhattan Aug. 23, 24 and 26, 2018. The play is about an awkward film geek who, through the help of his friends, is able to finally work through his hang-ups about his love-life (or lack thereof).
My name is Alec Kerr, and I am the film and theater critic for the Conway Daily Sun, a newspaper in North Conway, New Hampshire. Figuring Out Will is autobiographical. I drafted the original script back in 2002 at age 19, as I, myself, was “stuck in the friend-zone.” I recently rediscovered this script and found the characters’ emotion and some of the concepts held up, but that the dialogue needed to be drastically re-written. My past-self was trying waaaay too hard to be Kevin Smith. I wanted, in essence, to speak to my younger self and let him know that the “friend-zone” was more in his head than in reality, and hopefully pass that message on to similarly hung-up geeky types.
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