Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin’s HBO comedy pilot “The Chair Company” has added five new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively.
Lake Bell (“Harley Quinn,” “Mother Couch”), Sophia Lillis (“It,” I Am Not Okay With This”), Will Price (“After the Hunt,” “A Complete Unknown”), Joseph Tudisco (“A Brooklyn Love Story,” “FBI”), and Lou Diamond Phillips (“Search Party,” “Easter Sunday”) will all appear in the pilot. Phillips will be a guest star while the other four will be series regulars. Bell will play Barb Trosper, with Lillis as Natalie Trosper, Price as Seth Trosper, and Tudisco as Mike Santini. Phillips will appear as Jeff Levjman.
As previously announced, Robinson will star in the pilot. The official logline for “The Chair Company” states, “After an embarrassing incident at work a man finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy.”
Bell is repped by UTA, Entertainment 360 and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. Lillis is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Price is repped by Buchwald and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Tudisco is repped by Prestige Management Group. Phillips is repped by Global Artists Agency and Thruline Entertainment.
In addition to starring, Robinson is the co-creator of “The Chair Company” along with Zach Kanin. Both also serve as executive producers. Adam McKay and Todd Schulman will serve as executive producers via Hyperobject Industries alongside Andrew DeYoung, who will also direct the pilot. Hyperobject is currently under a first-look TV deal at HBO.
Kanin and Robinson are frequent collaborators, beginning with their time together on the writing staff of “Saturday Night Live.” They then went on to co-create the popular Comedy Central series “Detroiters” with Sam Richardson and Joe Kelly (with Robinson and Richardson starring) and the Netflix sketch comedy series “I Think You Should Leave” (with Robinson also starring). The latter show won the Emmy Award for best short form series in 2023, while Robinson has won the Emmy for best actor in a short form series twice to date.
