Cynthia Erivo to Neatly-known particular person in Musical Drama ‘Talent Expose’ for Universal

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7/22/2020

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Cynthia Erivo, the Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award winner who became as soon as Oscar-nominated for her work in 2019’s Harriet, has come aboard Talent Expose, a musical drama region up at Universal. Gandja Monteiro (Vida, The Chi) will order the project, which is in accordance with an belief by Duane Adler, the Build the Final Dance scribe who originated the Step Up franchise. Talent, a working title, is the fable of a failed songwriter, to be played by Erivo, who returns home to Chicago to e book a community of at-risk formative years of their annual skill pronounce.

Lena Waithe wrote the latest version of the script. Aimee Lagos (The Chi) and Adler penned earlier drafts. George Tillman Jr. and Robert Teitel, who closing made The Abominate U Give, will fabricate for their Negate Aspect highway Photos. Waithe will govt fabricate alongside Negate Aspect highway’s Jay Marcus. The project does no longer within the intervening time indulge in a open date.

Senior govt vp production Erik Baiers and senior vp production Sara Scott are overseeing the project on behalf of Universal. Marcus, who runs construction at Negate Aspect highway, will oversee on behalf of the company while Rishi Rajani will oversee for Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions. Erivo, who’s a singer and songwriter, won a Tony for handiest actress in a musical for the Broadway revival of The Colour Purple. The production also netted her a Grammy acquire for handiest musical theater album.

With Harriet, the biopic of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, she acquired Oscar nominations for handiest actress and handiest genuine tune. The multi-hyphenate, who also appeared in Widows and Scandalous Times at the El Royale, is within the intervening time one of the significant celebrities of HBO’s Stephen King adaptation The Outsider. Erivo is repped by UTA, Legit Talent and Literary Management, and Peikoff Mahan.

This text before every little thing appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.