Constantly antagonized and ostracized, he lives for weekends "camping" with his friends Diz and Bryan, where they escape to Haven, the fantasy world setting of their favorite LARP game.

A social butterfly, Bryan feels equally at home with Garrett and Diz on the field of battle at Haven, their favorite LARP, as he does in the locker room with Jesse and the rest of Piedmont's Varsity Wrestling team.

According to Deborah Klugman of LA Weekly, "Playwright Gregory Crafts’ drama is billed as a show about teen violence, conjuring images of gangs with guns or distraught loners firing wildly into a crowd of peers.

'”[1] While the Columbine massacre has inspired many novels, films, and TV episodes, Ben Trawick-Smith of NYTheatre.com points out that "Unlike previous fictionalizations, however, Gregory Crafts's play softens the sensationalistic aspects of the tragedy.

"[2] Critic Steven Stanley of StageSceneLA asserts "Though no two school shootings are alike, and Friends Like These gives us only one of them, it succeeds at the very least in helping us understand what might provoke a tormented adolescent to do the unthinkable, and the years between its 2009 premiere and now have only made it more relevant.