Teach Me, a new series written and executive produced by Film alum Lisa Rubin '13, is set to go into production for A24 and Peacock this year with Mandy Moore starring.
The series is an erotic thriller about a teacher wielding power over an impressionable but unreliable student, and what happens when that student becomes the teacher.
Rubin has always had a passion for writing a "strong, flawed, female character who lives full of desire, makes some bad choices, but is human," she told Vanity Fair during a 2017 interview. "I have a lot of drive and I wanted to see a female character like that."
This complex characterization is sure to be seen in Teach Me, with the series being described as "a fun, twisted cat-and-mouse game that explores the blurred lines between sex, power, and addiction."
Since graduating from the MFA Film Program, Rubin has had a storied career, having developed television and feature films for Starz, Peacock, A24, Dreamworks, Film Nation, Universal, and New Line. Rubin is the creator of Gypsy, the Netflix psycho-sexual thriller starring Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup. She adapted Liv Constantine’s novel The Last Mrs. Parrish for Netflix. Rubin has also written a Janis Joplin biopic that’s set to star Shailene Woodley. She was a 2023 MacDowell Fellow in Film/Video Arts.
