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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is processing Playing nan Field, a bid based connected nan USA Today sports romance caller Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner.
Sarah Tapscott will service arsenic nan project’s showrunner, executive shaper and writer. Other executive producers see Jeff Wachtel and Jared Berenholz for Future Shack Entertainment, Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe for A Touch More, Camille Bernier-Green, Emily Rasenick, and Wilsner.
Playing nan Field is an ensemble drama pursuing nan sexy, messy, and breathtaking lives of 4 female players connected Crescent City, a master New Orleans women’s shot team, anchored by nan will-they-won’t-they romance of recently drafted phenom Phoebe Matthews and squad skipper Grace Henderson.
Macmillan published nan caller successful September 2023.
Tapscott is presently a co-executive shaper connected nan upcoming Hulu/WBTV task Not Suitable For Work. Before that, she was a co-EP connected The Sex Lives of College Girls and The Big Leap. While nether a woody astatine 20th Century Fox, she worked connected New Girl, Single Parents, and Life successful Pieces, and developed aggregate scripts. She is represented by UTA and Ken Richman astatine Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
A bestselling writer of modern romances featuring queer folks who emotion women, Wilsner’s different books see Something to Talk About, Mistakes Were Made, and USA Today bestseller My Best Friend’s Honeymoon. She’s repped for movie & TV authorities by Katherine Curtis of New Leaf Literary & Media, and for each different authorities by Patrice Caldwell of The Caldwell Agency.
