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EXCLUSIVE: Five person joined Netflix‘s play series The God of nan Woods, based connected nan New York Times bestseller by Liz Moore, arsenic bid regulars: Damon Gupton (The Big Door Prize), Susannah Perkins (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Benjamin Walker (The Lord of nan Rings: The Rings of Power), Nell Fisher (Stranger Things), and Autumn Molina (A Really Haunted Loud House).
Toplined by nan antecedently announced Maya Hawke, Kerry Condon, and Ella Rubin, The God of nan Woods is group successful nan Adirondacks, exploring nan Van Laar family’s acheronian secrets, people tensions, and nan mysteries surrounding nan disappearance of 13-year-old Barbara Van Laar from her family’s summertime campy — successful nan aftermath of an earlier family calamity that whitethorn beryllium related. As nan past and coming collide, nan Van Laars’ wealthiness and power unravel, revealing nan damaging consequences of privilege and nan maltreatment of power.
Fisher is group to play Barbara Van Laar, nan creator and headstrong teen pinch a punk sensibility, whose disappearance is astatine nan bosom of nan series. Barbara joins Camp Emerson seeking refuge from her fraught family portion and finds kinship pinch campers and counselors alike. While young, she has nan maturity personification forced to make superior decisions overmuch excessively early connected successful life.
Gupton plays Denny Hayes, a skipper successful nan Bureau of Criminal Investigations. A well-intentioned investigator, Denny struggles pinch balancing his well-protected bid and his caller colleague, Judy Luptack (Hawke).
Perkins plays TJ Hewitt, nan softly commanding head of Camp Emerson who quickly and confidently jumps into action erstwhile 1 of her campers goes missing.
Walker joins arsenic nan imposing, entitled and humorless Peter Van Laar III, nan able heir to nan Van Laar estate, whose behaviour is simply a struggle for some his wife, Alice, and 13-year-old daughter.
Molina joins arsenic Tracy Jewell, a wished young camper astatine Emerson who makes it her ngo to thief find her missing bunkmate, moreover if it intends endangering her ain life.
Exec produced and co-showrun by Liz Hannah (The Girl from Plainville) and writer Moore, The God of nan Woods hails from Sony Pictures Television. Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty are besides exec producing for Original Film.
Gupton is represented by Harden Curtis Kirsten Riley Agency, SMS Talent, and Brookside Artist Management; Perkins by Gersh; Walker by Paradigm and Curtis Brown; Fisher by United Agents, CAA, and Untitled Entertainment; and Molina by Mitchell & Associates Talent and TalentWorks.
