Tazbah Chavez is ready to direct NBC‘s single-cam comedy pilot set at a Native American group middle, Selection has discovered completely.
The cast for the pilot consists of Jana Schmieding, Bobby Wilson, Wes Studi, Rachel Dratch, Frankie Quiñones, Eddie Spears, Brian Bahe, and Sienna Tso. It was picked up to pilot at NBC in March, together with the cheerleader comedy pilot “Stumble.”
The official logline for the venture states that it’s “An ensemble comedy set at a Native group middle in Oakland, Calif. The workers hustle to maintain the lights on whereas lifting up these in want.”
The pilot hails from writers Sierra Teller Ornelas, Jackie Keliiaa, and Wilson. All three are additionally government producers, with Teller Ornelas set to function showrunner. Morgan Sackett will even government produce. Common Tv, the place each Teller Ornelas and Sackett are below total offers, is the studio.
Chavez’s directing the pilot brings her again along with a number of members of the present’s solid and inventive crew as a consequence of her earlier work on the reveals “Rutherford Falls” and “Reservation Canines.” She wrote and directed a number of episodes of each reveals, and was a producer on the previous and co-executive producer on the latter, sharing in “Reservation Canines’” greatest comedy collection Emmy nomination in 2024. Her different credit embody “Resident Alien,” “Accused,” and “Intercourse Lives of School Ladies,” in addition to upcoming reveals like “IT: Welcome to Derry” and “The Paper.”
She is repped by 3 Arts, WME, and Hansen Jacobson.
NBC’s present comedy lineup is reasonably slim, consisting solely of the multi-cam “Joyful’s Place” and the mockumentary “St. Denis Medical.” Each “Night time Court docket” and “Lopez vs. Lopez” had been just lately canceled on the broadcast community.
