T.O.Y. highlights the prejudices and manipulation that teachers in Florida experience on a daily basis over what they can and cannot teach in their own classrooms. The story is written based on personal accounts that our playwright, Peter Nason, has experienced in his nearly 40 years of teaching. Our director, Chris Cavazza, is a former student of Nason’s and in the creation of this play, the two have shared a deeply personal connection over the way school systems are being run nowadays not just in Florida, but all over the country. The purpose of T.O.Y. is show that even the most beloved in the school systems are not spared to the injustice that takes place. We are here to ask the question: what are we going to do about this?