Just a month after announcing her beloved show Insecure was coming to an end, Issa Rae already has her next big gig.
The 36-year-old actress and writer will be executive producing a new half-hour comedy titled Rap S*** for HBO Max according to a Thursday report from Deadline.
Rae along with her company Hoorae Productions will be teaming up with City Girls hip-hop duo Yung Miami and JT and writer Syreeta Singleton.
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Enterprising: Issa Rae will be executive producing a new half-hour comedy titled Rap S*** for HBO Max according to a Thursday report from Deadline, as she is seen January 2020
Beloved: The 36-year-old Rae – seen in Insecure – is not only producing the show but will also be writing the pilot
Joining her as executive producers will be Singleton, who will also serve as showrunner, as well as A Black Lady Sketch Show’s Montrel McKay.
Rae is not only producing the show but will also be writing the pilot.
The series will be following two friends who were estranged in high school only to reunite to form a rap group in Miami.
Stunning: Rae along with her company Hoorae Productions will be teaming up with City Girls hip-hop duo Yung Miami and JT (seen in August 2020) on the project
Talented: Writer Syreeta Singleton (seen in December 2019) will also be teaming up the trio as she will also serve as showrunner
Coming soon: The series – which is curently being cast – will begin production in the summer and eventually stream on HBO Max
City Girls will also serve as co-executive producers along with Kevin ‘Coach K’ Lee and Pierre ‘P’ Thomas for Quality Control Films and Sara Rastogi for Hoorae.
Casting is currently underway with production scheduled to begin in the summer.
This comes just a month after it was announced that Rae’s highly-popular HBO show Insecure is coming to an end after a fifth and final season.
The Emmy nominated comedy debuted in 2016 and shows a Black female experience as two best friends navigate life, love and careers after college.
Done: Last month Rae announced the end of Insecure with a fifth and final season slated for the cable giant; seen in February 2020
Based on her web series, Awkward Black Girl, Issa created the series with Larry Wilmore and worked alongside showrunner Prentice Penny.
‘Prentice and I are so grateful that HBO believed in our show from the beginning and kept faith in us to see our vision through the end,’ she told Deadline.
‘We always planned to tell this story through five seasons, but we couldn’t have made it this far without the tremendous support of our audience.’
Done: The Emmy nominated comedy debuted in 2016 and shows a Black female experience as two best friends navigate life, love and careers after college
She tweeted on Wednesday: ‘Very excited to film our fifth and final season! We couldn’t have told a complete story without the tremendous support of our audience and the faith of @HBO. See ya’ll soon! #InsecureHBO’
It’s unclear when the final season will air, but production is rumored to begin later this month.
She tweeted on Wednesday: ‘Very excited to film our fifth and final season! We couldn’t have told a complete story without the tremendous support of our audience and the faith of @HBO. See ya’ll soon! #InsecureHBO’
‘Issa Rae has turned insecurity into an iconic form of comedy,’ Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President of HBO Programming, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Based on her web series, Awkward Black Girl, Issa created the series with Larry Wilmore and worked alongside showrunner Prentice Penny
‘The show is as incisive as it is heartfelt, and it has resonated strongly with its audience because of the deeply personal work that Issa, Prentice, Melina, the cast and the writers have put into it.
This talented team has conceived a brilliant final season for Insecure and we look forward to having many more stories to tell with this singular group of collaborators.’
The Golden Globe nominated series debuted on HBO in October 2016 and concluded its fourth season with a finale which aired in June.
The fifth season began filming on January 21 as Rae posted a photo from outside her trailer, and said, ‘First say of Season Bye-ve.’
‘Prentice and I are so grateful that HBO believed in our show from the beginning and kept faith in us to see our vision through the end,’ she told Deadline
End of an era: The hit HBO show began filming on January 21 after Deadline confirmed that this would be the final season just one week prior