CBS Announces Additional Casting for SUPERIOR DONUTS TV Adaptation

Deadline reports additional casting for CBS's upcoming adaptation of SUPERIOR DONUTS. As BWW reported in May, SOMETHING ROTTEN's Brian d'Arcy James exited the upcoming pilot based on Tracy Letts' 2008 play. Today, it is reported that Darien Sills-Evans (HBO's Treme) and Anna Baryshnikov (Wiener-Dog) will join previously announced cast members Jermaine Fowler, Maz Jobrani, David Koechner, Rell Battle and Judd Hirsch in the CBS multi-camera comedy.

Written and executive produced by Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan and Bob Daily, the project will center on "the relationship between the owner of a donut shop, Arthur (Hirsch), his new young employee (Fowler) and their patrons in a gentrifying neighborhood of Chicago." Sills-Evans will portay James, a police officer and regular customer of Superior Donuts. Baryshnikov will take on the recently added role of Maya, "a perpetual graduate student with multiple degrees who comes to Superior Donuts to work on her Ph.D. dissertation."

Steppenwolf's 2009 production of SUPERIOR DONUTS transferred to Broadway's Music Box Theatre in September of that year. The play was written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Tracy Letts. The production, directed by ensemble member Tina Landau, enjoyed a sold-out world premiere in Chicago.

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