Adrienne Warren To Star, Andrew Dosunmu To Direct – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Adrienne Warren is about as the feminine lead in Hulu drama sequence Black Cake, from Girls of the Motion creator Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Movies and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Leisure. Andrew Dosenmu (The place Is Kyra?) has been tapped to direct the pilot episode of the mission, which landed on the Disney streamer with a straight-to-series order final fall.

Black Cake, based mostly on the e book by Charmaine Wilkerson, marks a reunion for Warren with Cerar, Kaplan and Disney following their collaboration on Girls of the Motion. Warren starred as Mamie Until-Mobley within the ABC restricted sequence, which was created by Cerar and produced by Kapital.

Cerar serves as showrunner on Black Cake, a household drama wrapped in a homicide thriller with a various forged of characters and a world setting that spans many years. The story takes place in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California.

Within the late Sixties, a runaway bride named Covey disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s homicide. Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with most cancers, leaving her two estranged youngsters, Byron and Benny (Warren), a flash drive that holds beforehand untold tales of her journey from the Caribbean to America. These tales, narrated by Eleanor, shock her youngsters and problem every little thing they thought they knew about their household’s origin.

Warren’s Benny Bennett is an artist and empath who loves along with her complete coronary heart, however mysterious circumstances have saved her estranged from her total household for eight years. When Benny is summoned residence by her brother to take heed to a message left by their late mom, she is pressured to face the ghosts from her previous which have saved her from her household for all these years.

The sequence is govt produced by Cerar, Harpo Movies’ Winfrey and Carla Gardini and Kapital Leisure’s Kaplan. Harpo’s Emily Rudolf co-executive produces. Jessie Abbott is overseeing for Kapital.

Warren will subsequent be seen reverse Viola Davis in Gina Prince Bythewood’s upcoming historic epic characteristic movie The Lady King, set for a theatrical launch in September. She gained the Tony, Drama Desk, Antonyo and Outer Critics Circle awards for her efficiency as Tina Turner in Broadway’s Tina, The Tina Turner Musical. Warren originated the position within the West Finish manufacturing, incomes her Olivier, Night Customary and Joe Allen Award nominations. She additionally obtained a Tony nomination for Broadway’s Shuffle Alongside. Warren is Co-Founding father of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, which obtained a particular Tony Award final previous 12 months. She’s repped by Gersh, Perennial Leisure and Peikoff Mahan.

Dosenmu most just lately directed the Netflix Authentic movie Magnificence, written by Lena Waithe, which shall be launched this 12 months. Subsequent up, he’ll helm Amazon Studios’ Marked Man, starring Winston Duke as Marcus Garvey. His different earlier credit embrace the Sundance pics The place Is Kyra?, Stressed Metropolis and Mom of George. Dosunmu is repped by CAA and Granderson Des Rochers.