Rainn Wilson News

SoulPancake, the Participant Media (Spotlight, The Help) owned media and entertainment company originally founded by Rainn Wilson (The Office, The Meg), today announced the launch of “The Beautiful Mind” campaign, a multi-platform programming initiative, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month in May.  The month-long campaign will feature a mix of original video and social content, celebrity talent integrations and live events, anchored by It's Not That Funny, a documentary produced in partnership with Funny or Die.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, John Cusack will lead Gillian Flynn's thriller 'Utopia' at Amazon.

The Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs end their 2018-19 season with two plays in rep, How We Got On by Idris Goodwin, and She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen. She Kills Monsters, directed by Tatyana-Marie Carlo ('20) tackles grief through one of the most popular role-playing games, Dungeons & Dragons. How We Got On, directed by Josiah Davis('20), is a coming-of-age story for three young hip hop artists in the suburbs growing up alongside a new genre of music. All performances will take place in rep from May 3 - 19 at thePell Chafee Performance Center, 87 Empire Street, Providence. Tickets are on sale now at Trinity Rep's box office, by phone (401) 351-4242, or online atwww.TrinityRep.com/MFAShows.

Theatre Nervosa, a new pop-up theatre company offering timely, relevant productions, will present Will Eno's play Thom Pain (based on nothing) March 20 - 23 at the Underground Collaborative. The piece will be performed by A.J. Magoon and directed by John Schneider. All performances will take place at 7:30 p.m.

Amazon-owned IMDb (Internet Movie Database) recently premiered a new original program: “UnMade,” featuring Rainn Wilson, Nick Cannon, Kristen Schaal, Reggie Watts and other comedians, according to Variety. They will talk about projects of theirs that were never produced until now -- kind of.

It's the last week to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

It is announced today that US film and television star Jack McBrayer will make his West End debut in the role of Ogie in Waitress, which will begin preview performances on 8 February ahead of its official opening night on 7 March at London's Adelphi Theatre.

There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

IMDb has ordered two short-form comedy series, Special Skills hosted by Jay Pharoah, and Unmade, featuring comedians such as Nick Cannon, Tig Notaro, Rainn Wilson, Weird Al, Reggie Watts. Both shows are produced by Electus' Big Breakfast and are set to launch in early 2019, according to Deadline.

There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

There's just one month left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

There's just one month left to vote for the 2018 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards, brought to you by BroadwayHD! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers are already setting records as they vote for their favorites. Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included in the awards, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Our local editors set the categories, our readers submitted their nominees, and now you get to vote for your favorites! Voting will continue through December 31st, 2018.

The anthology series ROOM 104 will return for its 12-episode second season, debuting two episodes back-to-back, FRIDAY, NOV. 9 (11:30 pm ET), followed by two more new episodes subsequent Fridays at the same time.

44 Blue Productions, the innovative and acclaimed independent production house that is part of Red Arrow Studios, has partnered with activist and social entrepreneur Topeka K. Sam, to develop both scripted and unscripted series inspired by her fight to change the culture of degradation, humiliation and unfair sentencing that surrounds female incarceration. Recently Topeka, who is the Founder and Executive Director of The Ladies of Hope Ministries, made headlines and garnered national attention after creating the video that went viral around the story of Alice Marie Johnson, and which inspired Kim Kardashian West to help secure clemency for Johnson after a visit to the White House.

“The banal” can be a most interesting place – if you stop and take a look.

Today, SoulPancake, the Participant Media (Spotlight, The Help) owned content studio and production company originally founded by Rainn Wilson (The Office, The Meg), announced a multi-platform content partnership with Tastemade, a modern media brand inspiring the taste of a generation, and creator of such shows as Struggle Meals, Tiny Kitchen, and The Pitch.