Buy your grades. Buy your future.
But what happens when the rest of the world finds out?

Debuting just weeks after the College Admissions Scandal took the nation by storm, Ranked tells the story of a dystopian world where competition reaches new heights as publicized academic excellence defines each student's worth. In the face of an intense and perverse culture of performance, Lily must come to grips with her place in the status quo as she watches friends and enemies alike destroy themselves and each other to score their way to the top of academic leaderboards. When an impossible lie is discovered, the fate of these students' futures hangs in the balance.

Since premiering in April of 2018, Ranked has been produced and further developed at the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance’s Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank, has been performed by high schools across the country, and is the focus of the 2022 HBO feature documentary, My So-Called High School Rank.

"It could well be a new requirement-all high school theatre groups shall have Ranked in their catalog"
- BroadwayWorld.com

Lily is Above the Average, barely. Soon the giant, and very public, academic leaderboards will update everyone’s class rank, and for another day, everyone will know their place. If you fall Below the Average - say goodbye to college, and pretty much everything else. Below the Average students are nothing more than social outcasts, not worth anyone’s time. In the face of an intense and perverse culture of performance, Lily must find her place in the status quo as she watches friends and enemies alike destroy themselves and each other to score their way to the top.

When an impossible lie is discovered, the fate of these students' futures hangs in the balance. Ranked asks - what are you worth? Who decides? And what do you do when it all comes crashing down.