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EXCLUSIVE: NYC-based comedian, filmmaker and character Edy Modica is group to unveil her debut drama special, I’m Just Like You (And It Sucks), exclusively connected Veeps connected June 26, pinch a wide merchandise planned for fall.
Produced by Irony Point, nan Emmy and Peabody-winning accumulation institution down projects like I Think You Should Leave pinch Tim Robinson and Chris Fleming’s lauded HBO special Live astatine nan Palace, Modica’s typical sees her talk her longing for quality relationship and each of nan ways she’s contorted herself successful hunt of it. Whether it beryllium talking to stains connected her aunt’s carpet, making retired pinch a brace of brothers connected a cruise successful 2007, aliases talking to a alien astir his precocious woman who died successful a car accident, she will extremity astatine thing to consciousness and dispersed emotion to nan world astir her.
In nan special, directed by Ben O’Brien, which she changeable astatine The Slipper Room successful New York City past summer, Edy guides nan assemblage done her life arsenic an angry mediocre kid, a sexually deviant teen, each nan measurement to wherever she is now: a mediocre yet somewhat famous, sexually deviant adult, pinch a passion for Human Connection.
In a connection connected nan special, nan comic observed, “We are each insane, analyzable perverts which intends nary of america are! And isn’t that beautiful?!!?!”
I’m Just Like You (And It Sucks) is produced by Taylor Kowalski. Exec producers included Alex Bach and Daniel Powell for Irony Point, O’Brien, and Modica.
Best known for her domiciled successful nan Emmy-nominated Amazon comedy Jury Duty, Modica has besides been seen recurring connected Apple’s Shrinking, HBO Max’s Made for Love, HBO’s High Maintenance, and Tracy Morgan’s multicam series Crutch for Paramount+. On nan large screen, she tin beryllium seen successful 20th/Hulu’s Eenie Meanie, starring Samara Weaving, and precocious wrapped connected nan Cameron Diaz-led Netflix film Bad Day, helmed by her Jury Duty collaborated Jake Szymanski.
A Vimeo Staff Pick, Modica’s debut short film Nicole is presently being developed arsenic a half-hour drama aviator for HBO. The multi-hyphenate is repped by Heroes and Villains Entertainment, UTA, and Myman Greenspan Fox.
