EXCLUSIVE: Wally Baram (What We Do within the Shadows), Mary Beth Barone (Black Mirror), Adam DiMarco (The White Lotus), and Rish Shah (The Candy East) have been tapped for sequence common roles in Prime Video and A24‘s new comedy sequence Overcompensating from creator Benito Skinner, who leads the ensemble.
These aren’t the one new additions, we’ve discovered, as Holmes (Welcome to Flatch), Corteon Moore (From), Owen Thiele (Theater Camp) and Nell Verlaque (Thanksgiving) at the moment are aboard in recurring roles.
Baram performs Carmen, a highschool outsider on a mission to slot in in any respect prices in school, who turns into quick pals with Benny (Skinner) at orientation. Barone performs Benny’s older sister, Grace, who has blossomed in school and loves managing Benny, with DiMarco as Grace’s boyfriend, Peter, who appears to be like out for Benny. Shah portrays Miles, a cute, mysterious freshman who catches Benny’s eye straight away.
Holmes performs Hailee, Carmen’s wild and iconic military brat roommate with a coronary heart of gold. Moore portrays Gabe, the alpha greatest buddy of DiMarco’s Peter and fellow member of the distinguished F&G secret society. Thiele performs George, a assured, out, homosexual sophomore at Yates who desires to assist Benny come out, with Verlaque as Emily, a fellow Yates freshman and the good, prettiest woman from Carmen’s hometown.
Additionally written and exec produced by Skinner, Overcompensating is a college-set ensemble comedy concerning the wild, chaotic journey of Benny (Skinner), a closeted former soccer participant and homecoming king, watching as he turns into quick pals with Carmen (Baram), a highschool outsider on a mission to slot in in any respect prices. With steering from Benny’s older sister (Barone) and her campus-legend boyfriend (DiMarco), Benny and Carmen juggle horrible hookups, flavored vodka, and pretend IDs. The present explores the lengths to which all of us overcompensate whereas on the trail to discovering out who we actually are.
Along with Skinner, EPs embrace Jonah Hill, Matt Dines, and Ali Goodwin for Sturdy Child. Charli XCX will function government music producer for the sequence produced by A24 and Amazon MGM Studios.
A stand-up comedian, author, and actress, who additionally serves as a supervising producer on Overcompensating, Baram beforehand produced Netflix’s Neon and co-produced Apple’s Shrinking. Moreover, she’s written on the sequence What We Do within the Shadows, Betty, and Sprung. Beforehand named a Simply For Laughs New Face, she made her late-night debut on The Late Present with Stephen Colbert.
Skinner’s co-host for the podcast Experience, Barone is a comic, author and actor who has been seen in Netflix’s Black Mirror and the Oscar-shortlisted brief The Anne Frank Reward Store. Her characteristic script You’re My Greatest Buddy was featured on the 2022 Black Listing, together with her first stand-up particular Thought Scary premiering on YouTube earlier this 12 months.
Greatest identified for starring in Season 2 of HBO’s The White Lotus, DiMarco has additionally been seen on sequence like The Magicians, When We Rise, and The Order. Different credit embrace Date & Swap, Phrases and Photos, and Disney’s Radio Insurgent.
Beforehand, Shah has been seen on sequence like Ms. Marvel and Obsession. Characteristic credit embrace The Candy East, Do Revenge and Sitting in Bars with Cake. Most just lately, he wrapped the Netflix movie Pleasure reverse Thomasin McKenzie and Invoice Nighy.
A comic, improviser, actor, and author, Holmes is greatest identified for starring on Fox’s Welcome to Flatch, and also will quickly be seen in Paul Feig’s Amazon pic Jackpot.
Moore stars on MGM+’s From and can subsequent be seen in Natasha Kermani’s characteristic Abraham’s Boys.
Most just lately seen within the Sundance prize winner Theater Camp distributed by Searchlight, Thiele has additionally been just lately been tapped to star in Snowflakes, a pilot for FX directed by Jonathan Krisel.
Verlaque has been seen in Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving and Lifetime’s Secrets and techniques in a Small City, in addition to CBS’s Bull and Disney+’s Large Shot.
Baram is repped by 3 Arts, CAA, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; Barone by UTA, Leisure 360, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; DiMarco by UTA, The Characters Expertise Company, and Cover Media Companions; Shah by Mosaic, UTA, Conway Van Gelder Grant, and Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern; Holmes by CAA, Artists First, and Felker Toczek Suddleson; Moore by Revolutionary Artists and Noble Kaplan Abrams; Thiele by Leisure 360, UTA, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; and Verlaque by Nameless Content material and Revolutionary.
