EXCLUSIVE: Erika Alexander (American Fiction, Residing Single) has joined the forged of NBC‘s Untitled Tracy Morgan pilot from Tina Fey, Robert Carlock and author Sam Means.
Written by Carlock and Means, the brand new comedy stars Morgan as a disgraced former soccer participant on a mission to rehabilitate his picture.
Alexander will play Monica, Reggie’s (Morgan) childhood sweetheart from Brooklyn, she co-parents with him and remains to be his agent and enterprise supervisor, though they divorced years in the past.
Along with Alexander and Morgan, Daniel Radcliffe will star as Arthur Tobin, an award-winning filmmaker who strikes into Reggie’s mansion to movie an immersive documentary concerning the former star working again.
Carlock, Means and Morgan government produce with Fey, Eric Gurian and David Miner. Rhys Thomas is the director and government producer of the pilot. Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group, the place Fey, Carlock and Means are beneath total offers, produces with Little Stranger, Bevel Gears and three Arts.
SAG and Impartial Spirit Award-nominated Erika Alexander will subsequent be co-starring within the latest season of Apple TV’s Invasion. On movie, she starred within the award season sweetheart American Fiction, Twine Jefferson’s Academy Award-winning movie. In 2023, Alexander co-starred within the critically acclaimed movie Earth Mama.
She is greatest recognized for her fan-favorite position of legal professional Maxine Shaw in Yvette Lee Bowser’s beloved comedy collection Residing Single. Addition credit embody Get Out, The Cosby Present, Black Lightning and Wutang: An American Saga.
As co-founder of Shade Farm Media and a board member of VoteRunLead, Alexander is on a mission to deliver better fairness, inclusion, and numerous illustration to each media and electoral politics. Her firm, Shade Farm Media, self-described because the “Motown of movie, TV and tech,” develops and produces scripted and unscripted content material for movie, tv, streaming and podcast platforms.
She is repped by Greene Expertise, Untitled Leisure and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
