BLACKOUT is a play that explores what happens in the psyche of a man who blacks out after one too many at a college party. A party where he has been voted Teacher of the Year. Professor Zack Davis is a teacher of creative writing at a small college. He is admired by faculty and students alike. But he has a secret. He has a habit of going online when he’s been drinking and entering chat rooms looking for male companionship. One night he meets a boy online and invites him over. It turns out the boy is a student of his at the local college. The boy comes over the next day when the man’s fiancé is there to celebrate the imminent arrival of the professor’s novel from the publishers. When the doorbell rings they think it’s the book, but instead, it’s the boy. The boy enters and ingratiates himself into the scene, making the professor very nervous. The fiancé is intrigued by the student and invites him to stay for lunch. What we later learn is that neither the boy nor the fiancé exist; what they represent is the inner conflict the professor fights with in his psyche: the conflict between getting married (having stability and a wife) like everyone else at the college; or following the boy’s advice, his true nature, one of lust and uncertainty, a life of possible loneliness and shame. This is one man’s struggle with his conscience.