Starz to Premiere Third & Final Season of Monica Raymund’s “Hightown” in January

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Monica Raymund is preparing for her swan song…

Starz has announced that season three of its drama series Hightown, starring the 37-year-old half-Dominican American actress, will be its last.

From creator Rebecca Cutter, Hightown premiered in 2020 with Raymund set as the gritty crime drama’s star.

The series is set in the beautiful but bleak world of Cape Cod and follows Jackie Quiñonez’s journey to sobriety is overshadowed by a murder investigation dragging her into its fold.

Set to premiere on January 26, the third and final season follows Massachusetts State Trooper Jackie Quiñones (Raymund) who has fallen off the wagon and her job due to it. Jackie doesn’t let any of that stop her from trying to help save many of the most often ignored and forgotten victims in Cape Cod, sex workers.

In Season 2, Quiñones finally becomes a real cop with the hope of doing some good in this world. Thrust immediately into the crime wave of deadly carfentanyl flooding the Cape, she was laser-focused on bringing down drug dealer Frankie Cuevas (Amaury Nolasco), the man she holds responsible for the death of her best friend, Junior (Shane Harper). With disgraced officer Ray Abruzzo (James Badge Dale) off the force and mired in depression, Jackie finds a new partner in Leslie (Tonya Glanz), the only other female on the force. Through it all, Jackie must walk the tightrope of sobriety as she struggles to stay above an ocean of secrets, betrayal and the shame and failure of her past.

In addition to Raymund, Dale and Nolasco, the returning cast includes Riley Voelkel, Atkins Estimond and Dohn Norwood. Imani Lewis, Mark Boone Junior and Mike Pniewski return in recurring roles while Ana Nogueira, Taja V. Simpson, Michael Drayer, Garret Dillahunt and Jeanine Serralles all guest star.

Ana Nogueira to Pen “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” for Warner Bros. & DC Studios

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Tom Castaneda

Ana Nogueira is a (super)girl on a mission…

The 38-year-old Latina actress, playwright and screenwriter has been tapped to write Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow for Warner Bros. and DC Studios.

The project is a standalone film that will follow Kara Zor-El, the cousin of Superman. The film is still in early development and no director is attached at this time.

While plot details for the film are still vague, the original comic follows Supergirl as she gets caught up in a young alien girl’s quest for revenge.

The film is a big part of DC Studio Co-Chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran’s grand plan to re-launch the DC universe starting with Superman Legacy that Gunn is writing and directing with David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan starring. Production for that film will begin next year.

Nogueira, the actress turned playwright, most recently penned her Off-Broadway play Which Way To The Stage, which debuted in 2022. On the film side she is adapting the novel Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters for 21 Laps Entertainment.

Tanya Saracho to Make Film Directorial Debut with Adaptation of Her Off Broadway Play “Mala Hierba”

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Tom Castaneda

Tanya Saracho is in the (bad) weeds…

The Mexican-American actress, playwright, dramaturge, screenwriter and Vida creator is bringing her 2014 Off Broadway play Mala Hierba to the big screen, and she’ll be directing the film adaptation of her acclaimed project.

In her film directorial debut, Saracho has teamed up with Anonymous Content to adapt the Texas border town set drama.

The film version of Mala Hierba will be produced by AC Studios, with Dawn Olmstead, David Levine, and Whitney Dibo overseeing the project for outfit.

Former Vida EP Stephanie Langhoff, and Christine Davila, head of development and production at Saracho’s Ojala Productions, will serve as producers on Mala Hierba.

Originally opening at Second Stage Uptown nearly six years ago, the play unravels the coiffured life of a Lone Star State trophy wife who begins to see the cracks in her life of wealth and privilege as her first and perhaps true love reappears. The possibility of a renewed life together for the two women forces the Liliana character to make a searing decision about what she wants and who she is.

The stage production of Mala Hierba was directed by Jerry Ruiz and starred Marta Milans, Sandra Marquez, and Ana Nogueira in the primary roles.

The union with Anonymous comes just over a couple of weeks after the active Saracho launched the Ojalá Ignition Lab in conjunction with UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Part of the acclaimed playwright and filmmaker’s 2020 inked development deal with the studio, the incubator program for Latinx voices will provide five writers and their own proposed projects with mentoring from experienced showrunners and EPs, including self-described “den mother” Saracho and an extended network to draw on for the future.

Since Vida, which won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, finished its three-season stint on Starz in May 2020, Saracho stayed in Britain during the pandemic to work with musician and Lovesick actor Johnny Flynn for an upcoming project.

Nogueira Cast in CBS’ Comedy Pilot “Good Session”

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Tom Castaneda

Ana Nogueira has landed a good role…

The Latina actress has been cast in a series regular role on CBS’ comedy pilot Good Session, starring Psych’s James Roday.

The project, written by John Hamburg and Matt Miller, centers on a happy couple, Joel (Roday) and Lindsay, who go to a therapist (Tracey Ullman) to help them decide if they should have a baby but quickly discover they have more to discuss.

Nogueira, who most recently starred on the short-lived The Michael J. Fox Show, will portray Abby, a lovable mess who is always changing herself to suit the personality of her latest male suitor.

The pilot episode of Good Session will be directed by Hamburg.

Nogueira’s other credits include television appearances on Baby Daddy and Blue Bloods.

Nogueira to Star in NBC’s Michael J. Fox Comedy Series

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Tom Castaneda

Ana Nogueira is teaming up with Michael J. Fox…

The Latina actress has joined the cast of Fox’s NBC series, which has a 22-episode order for a fall 2013 lunch.

From Sony Pictures Television and Will Gluck, the single-camera comedy is inspired by Fox’s real life and stars him as Mike Burnaby, a husband and father of three in New York City juggling the challenges of family and career while dealing with Parkinson’s disease.

A former lead anchor for a local NY station, Mike decides to go back to work after Parkinson’s forced him to take time off.

Nogueira will portray Kay, Mike’s very young, very sweet, hard-working but very emotional segment producer.

Nogueira previously co-starred in the Fox comedy pilot El Jefe last season.

Rasuk Cast in Fox Comedy Pilot…

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Tom Castaneda

He may no longer have a home at HBO… But Victor Rasuk could be back on primetime television in the near future.

The 28-year-old Dominican American actor will co-star opposite Ryan Hansen in Fox’s comedy pilot El Jefe, which centers on an easy-going but lost 30-year-old (Hansen) who, tossed out of his Brentwood home, moves in with his longtime Latina nanny.

Rasuk, who last starred in HBO’s How To Make It In America, will play the nanny’s oldest son, who just happens to be her concentido.

Along with Rasuk and Hansen, El Jefe will feature newcomer Ana Nogueira as Rasuk’s character’s sister— a beautiful, fiercely competitive doctor-in-residence.

Nogueira Cast in Fox Comedy Pilot

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Tom Castaneda

She traveled the country in the national tour of Broadway’s hit musical In The Heights… But Ana Nogueira’s next project is taking her to Los Angeles.

The Philadephia-native has been cast in Fox’s comedy pilot El Jefe, which centers on an affable but lost 30-year-old (Ryan Hansen) who, tossed out of his Brentwood home, moves in with his longtime Latin American nanny and finds himself in a family and work life very different than the ones he grew up in.

Nogueira, a graduate of The Boston Conservatory, will play the nanny’s daughter: a beautiful, fiercely competitive doctor-in-residence.

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