one of my thoughts was actually for a native who moved back home to teach theatre if we can do something with that, acting wasn't so much a passion or a life goal for him like it was for florry but something he was good at so he did it to pad his college resume and win monologue competitions to pay his way through. i don't know if there are any other former theatre kids already in play but i'm thinking maybe they were the leads of every show but hated each other because they had opposite approaches to everything, he thought she took this stupid hobby way too seriously while she was annoyed he was always dicking around and pulling pranks backstage, not to mention how dare he get every lead handed to him just for being a guy who showed up to auditions when some people had been training all their lives for this? she's mellowed since the kid and he's grown up a little himself so things can be different now, or maybe they still bring out that pettiness in each other, whichever works