On the cusp of a pivotal promotion, a burned-out theater professor has 24 hours to rescue her new play, save her marriage, and win over a notorious celebrity playwright who threatens to destroy her for sport.
Trudy Svoboda, the former artistic director of a once-successful theater troupe, has followed her high-profile husband into academia, only to be plagued with self-doubt and suppressed creativity. As a last-ditch effort at tenure, she’s staging a new play: a memoir about her Czech dissident father who was killed in a hit-and-run. But two days before the show, everything blows up. Her lead actor drops out, and Trudy is saddled with playing the role of her father. Her husband—accused of forging data—goes missing. And her juror, playwright Paul Ian Kennedy, turns out to be a renowned narcissist. As they battle it out over an icy weekend, the two form an unlikely connection that propels Trudy’s work—and life—in a startling new direction.
Balancing sharp satire with moments both tender and surreal, THE IMPOSTER asks what happens when we stop betraying ourselves to get ahead?
