EXCLUSIVE: Annaleigh Ashford (Happy Face, Impeachment: American Crime Story) has been cast as a series regular in the eight-episode Apple limited series The Off Weeks, starring and executive produced by Jessica Chastain and Ben Stiller. Arian Moayed will also be part of the main cast.
From executive producer and showrunner Alissa Nutting, The Off Weeks follows writing professor Gus Adler (Stiller), whose divorce has thrown his life into chaos. He struggles to hold things together during “on weeks” when he has custody of his kids. But in his “off weeks,” he’s falling dangerously in love with Stella West (Chastain), a mysterious woman whose arrival puts Gus’ on-week duties and off-weeks ambitions on a fatal collision course.
Ashford will play Jade, Gus’ next-door neighbor.
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Hailing from Apple Studios, The Off Weeks is produced for Apple TV by global independent studio wiip. In addition to Nutting, Stiller executive produces for Red Hour alongside John Lesher, and Chastain executive produces alongside Kelly Carmichael for Freckle Films. Michael Showalter, who directs and developed the project with Semi-Formal Productions, executive produces alongside Jordana Mollick. Paul Lee and Gabriel Fisher executive produce for wiip. Peter Principato, Allen Fischer and Brian Steinberg executive produce for Artists First. Dean Bakopoulos (Made for Love) also serves as executive producer.
Ashford most recently starred in the Paramount+ drama series Happy Face opposite Dennis Quaid, from executive producers Robert & Michelle King. She received a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2023 for the Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales opposite Kumail Nanjiani, Murray Bartlett and Juliette Lewis. Her additional TV credits include Impeachment: American Crime Story, Bad Education, Unbelievable, B Positive, and Masters of Sex.
A Broadway mainstay, she won the Tony Award in 2015 for You Can’t Take It With You, and was Tony-nominated for her performances in Kinky Boots and Sweeney Todd, the latter of which also earned her a Grammy Award nomination and the Drama League’s Distinguished Performance Award. She is repped by CAA, Beth Rosner Management, and Schreck Rose Dapello.