Daniels On Board for Showtime's 'Happily Ever After'

According to Deadline.com, Jeff Daniels is collaborating with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's  Timothy Busfield, for a new Showtime series entitled,  Happily Ever After. Daniels has written the script for the series' pilot, and he will also star in the show as a factory worker turned musician.  The potential pilot will be directed by Bushfield.

On Broadway, Daniels has appeared in Lanford Wilson's Redwood Curtain, A. R. Gurney's The Golden Age and Wilson's Fifth of July, for which he won a Drama Desk Award for Best Supporting Actor. Off-Broadway, he received a Drama Desk nomination for Wilson's Lemon Sky, and an Obie Award for his performance in The Circle Repertory Company production of Johnny Got His Gun. He returned to the stage in 2009, appearing in Broadway's God of Carnage with Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis and James Gandolfini.

In 1991, he founded the regionally-acclaimed Purple Rose Theatre Company, a non-profit stage company in his childhood and current home of Chelsea, Michigan. He is currently Executive Director of PRTC, and has written 11 plays for them.

 

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