{"id":524289,"date":"2026-07-13T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/524289\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:00:08","slug":"emily-meade-mae-whitman-to-lead-comedy-pilot-whisper-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/524289\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Meade & Mae Whitman To Lead Comedy Pilot ‘Whisper Sisters’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Emily Meade<\/a> (The Deuce, The Leftovers) and Mae Whitman<\/a> (Good Girls, Parenthood) will co-lead\u00a0Whisper Sisters<\/a>, a single-camera half-hour comedy pilot from Corey Roederer that takes aim at the male-dominated world of Kentucky bourbon and moonshine. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe pilot begins production in Louisville, Kentucky, this summer.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhisper Sisters\u00a0pays homage to the real women who helped build Kentucky\u2019s bootlegging legacy during Prohibition but were written out of its history, the so-called \u201cWhisper Sisters.\u201d Set in and around the heart of bourbon country, the series mines explosive comedy from ideological collision and dysfunctional family loyalty.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhitman will play Alexis Whisper, a Brooklyn-based coastal elite who fled her Kentucky roots and never looked back. <\/p>\n

\n\tMeade plays her estranged sister, Erin Whisper, a hard-partying, fiercely independent single mother who never left. Reunited at their father\u2019s funeral, the two opposites are forced to work together to keep the family\u2019s illegal moonshine business \u2014 and their unsuspecting loved ones \u2014 alive.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the ensemble are Britne Oldford (Umbrella Academy) as Kayla, Alexis\u2019s restaurateur spouse; Emma Duchesneau (A Woman\u2019s Work) as Reagan, Erin\u2019s preternaturally shrewd 17-year-old daughter; Sharon Murray as Memaw, the cantankerous matriarch keeper of the family\u2019s moonshine recipe; and Henry Thomas (E.T)) as Keith, a dirty Bullitt County Sheriff with a hand in everything shady that moves through town.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pilot is written and created by Corey Roederer and directed by Ryan Cunningham (Lone Wolves,\u00a0Broad City). Casting is by Mary Clay Boland (The Sopranos, As the World Turns), who also produces alongside Brian Loschiavo (Bluebird, Clean Hands),\u00a0whose company, Riverside Entertainment, is producing the pilot.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis story started in my own backyard,\u201d said Roederer, a Louisville native. \u201cGrowing up in Kentucky, you learn early that bourbon is a religion and that the women who built it never got their names on the bottle. Getting to bring Alexis and Erin to life with actors like Mae and Emily is a dream. And shooting it back home in Louisville brings the whole thing full circle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Cunningham, \u201cWhat drew me in is that this is a show about reclamation \u2014 women taking back an industry, a legacy, and a family. It\u2019s loud and filthy, with a body count\u2019s worth of bad decisions, but underneath all of it is a real story about two sisters finding their way back to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pilot is being independently financed, with the producers planning to use the finished episode to set the project up for series later this year. <\/p>\n

\n\tMeade is represented by Gersh and Authentic. Whitman is represented by Gersh and Untitled. Oldford is represented by Gersh. Duchesneau is represented by McCray Agency and Asteria Artists. Murray is represented by Heyman Talent and SquarePeg Group Inc., and Thomas is represented by Paradigm and Inphenate. Roederer and Cunningham are represented by Art\/Work Entertainment. Loschiavo is represented by Art\/Work and UTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Emily Meade (The Deuce, The Leftovers) and Mae Whitman (Good Girls, Parenthood) will co-lead\u00a0Whisper Sisters, a single-camera…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[259506,156,259507,111,139,69,437,259508],"class_list":["post-524289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-emily-meade","tag-entertainment","tag-mae-whitman","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv","tag-whisper-sisters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}