Quinn Shephard has unveiled the cast for The Body, a gritty new coming-of-age drama she’s creating, showrunning and directing for Netflix.
Series regulars include Kristina Bogic (Playing Gracie Darling) as Anya Butler, Sara Boustany (Hello, Beautiful) as Elise Zakaria, Geena Meszaros (The Order) as Lisbeth Anderson, Nnamdi Asomugha (The Knife) as Father Franklin, Louisa Krause (King Kelly) as Catherine Anderson, Shirley Chen (Slanted) as Maddie Delaney, Jackson Kelly (The Pitt) as Leo Anderson, and Sofia Wylie (The Map that Leads to You) as Grace Franklin.
Thesps set for recurring roles include Kyra Pierce (Chicago Fire) as Bailey Bradley, Phallon Pierce (Chicago Fire) as Brit Bradley, Marcel Ruiz (Breakthrough) as Tyler Santos, Orlando Norman (The Map that Leads to You) as Steven Maxwell, and Gabby Windey (of The Bachelorette and The Traitors fame), who makes her screen acting debut as Coach Miller.
Hailing from North Road Company and Felix Culpa — the production company of Riley Keough, who starred opposite Lily Gladstone in Shephard’s FX crime drama Under the Bridge — the show’s plot is thrust into motion when a dance-team initiation gone wrong leads a group of badly behaved Catholic school girls to begin having prophetic visions that set off mass hysteria in their town. It consists of eight episodes and was ordered by Netflix in May.
Exec producers include Peter Chernin, Amy Israel and Josh Stern for North Road, Keough, Gina Gammell, and Sacha Ben Harroche for Felix Culpa, and Blair Breard.
Beginning her career as an actor with roles in films like The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Shephard has made a strong impression with a handful of projects behind the camera in the last decade, as she’s made that side of the business her focus, as a writer, director, and producer. Most recently, she developed, directed and exec produced Under the Bridge, a lauded limited series which, like The Body, centered on a sprawling ensemble, mostly of young up-and-comers. The show was nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Limited Series and earned Gladstone noms at the Emmys, SAG Awards and more. Prior to that helming the film Not Okay, starring Zoey Deutch, for Searchlight/Hulu, as well as the Tribeca-premiering Blame, she is repped by WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
Bogic is repped by Marquee Management and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Boustany by D2 Management; Meszaros by The Characters; Asomugha by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Krause by United Agents, Untitled, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Chen by Arise Artists Agency, Linden Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Kelly by Gersh, Duvall Mac Talent, and 11:11 Entertainment; Wylie by UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; the Pierces by Gray Talent Group; Ruiz by Range Media Partners and Jackoway Austen; Norman by Independent Talent Group, UTA, Anonymous Content, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; and Windey by UTA, Ocean Avenue, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
