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EXCLUSIVE: As Prime Video is preparing for nan May 13 Season 1 premiere of Off Campus, Amazon MGM Studios has been softly casting nan 2nd installment of nan college-set romanticist play bid based connected Elle Kennedy’s bestselling book series, which received an early renewal successful February.
India Fowler (Fear Street: Prom Queen, The Agency) has been tapped for nan bid regular domiciled of Grace Ivers, nan emotion liking to Antonio Cipriano‘s John Logan. She is simply a sociology awesome freshman trying to fresh successful astatine Briar University.
Additionally, Philipa Soo (Hamilton, Dopesick) is group to recur arsenic Scarlett, a theatre creator who is impermanent directing an original play astatine nan college’s play department.
Amazon would not corroborate which book successful nan Off Campus bid Season 2 is based on. With Grace being introduced, signs constituent to nan caller installment taking connected book #2 The Mistake, which follows Logan and Grace’s emotion story. In that book, Grace meets Logan her freshman twelvemonth and comes backmost arsenic a sophomore pinch overmuch much assurance and an no-nonsense cognition toward nan prima lucky player, who is champion friend’s pinch Season 1’s lead Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli).
Since nan couple’s romance does not return disconnected until Grace’s sophomore year, nan bid could besides return a different approach, introducing them successful Season 2 earlier they return cardinal shape successful Season 3 and guidelines Season 2 connected Book #3, The Score, whose leads, Dean (Stephen Kalyn) and Allie (Mika Abdalla), are introduced successful Season 1.
Created for tv by Louisa Levy, assemblage soap Off Campus follows an elite crystal lucky team, and nan women successful their lives, arsenic they grapple pinch love, heartbreak, and self-discovery — forging heavy friendships and enduring bonds while navigating nan complexities that travel pinch transitioning into adulthood.
Season 1 follows nan “opposites attract” romance betwixt quiet songwriter, Hannah (Bright), and Briar University’s all-star lucky athlete, Garrett (Cameli) arsenic they hatch a clone making love strategy to effort and triumph complete Hannah’s crush Justin Kohl (Josh Heuston). The first play also introduces nan remainder of nan quartet of lucky players who will each co-lead a play based connected a different book, Cipriano (Logan), Jalen Thomas Brooks (Tucker from Book #4, The Goal) and Kalyn (Dean), on pinch Abdalla arsenic Hannah’s champion friend Allie.
Levy serves arsenic co-showrunner and executive produces Off Campus with Gina Fattore. Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and James Seidman executive nutrient for Temple Hill. Leanna Billings of Billings Productions and Neal Flaherty besides service arsenic executive producers.
English character Fowler headlined nan Netflix slasher film Fear Street: Prom Queen and plays Michael Fassbender’s girl connected nan Showtime/Paramount+ spy triller play The Agency. She was repped by Untitled Entertainment, UK’s Curtis Brown and Goodman Genow Schenkman.
Soo, known for originating nan domiciled of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton successful nan philharmonic Hamilton, precocious starred connected ABC’s Doctor Odyssey. She is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Dessi Gomez contributed to this report.
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