EXCLUSIVE: Brad Ingelsby’s upcoming HBO crime drama collection starring Mark Ruffalo has added to its exec producer and director ranks.
Salli Richardson-Whitfield has joined the challenge and can direct a number of episodes and exec produce. She joins Jeremiah Zaga, who will direct the pilot episode plus a number of episodes in addition to exec produce.
It comes as Richardson-Whitfield turns into one in every of HBO’s go-to administrators, having just lately directed episodes of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty and The Gilded Age.
The untitled drama is ready within the working class suburbs exterior of Philadelphia and follows an FBI agent who heads a Task Force to place an finish to a string of drug-house robberies led by an unsuspecting household man.
Mare of Easttown creator Ingelsby is writing the restricted collection, which kinds a part of his total take care of the community.
The collection is produced in affiliation with wiip. Ingelsby exec produces alongside Zagar, Richardson-Whitfield and Ruffalo in addition to Paul Lee and Mark Roybal for wiip and David Crockett. Nicole Jordan-Webber and Public Record’s Jeremy Yaches function co-executive producers.
Richardson-Whitfield started her profession as an actor, starring in movies akin to The Great White Hype reverse Samuel L. Jackson, Antwone Fisher reverse Denzel Washington and alongside Will Smith in I Am Legend and on collection akin to long-running Syfy collection Eureka, in addition to three seasons of Stitchers on Freeform.
She then moved into directing, helming episodes of OWN’s Queen Sugar, Amazon’s Wheel of Time, Hulu’s Reprisal, Apple’s See, Netflix’s Altered Carbon, Starz’ American Gods and Survivor’s Remorse, Showtime’s The Chi and ABC’s Scandal and Black-ish. She was nominated for an NAACP Award for Outstanding Directing In A Drama Series for her work on Luke Cage, acquired a Hugo Award nomination for her work on Wheel Of Time and received the TV Directing award for her work on HBO’s The Gilded Age from the African American Film Critics Association after directing 4 episodes of the interval drama’s first season.
Richardson-Whitfield is repped by More/Medavoy Management, Kaplan-Stahler and Innovative Artists.