Janicza Bravo ( Zola) and Alonso Alvarez ( Snowfall) each serve as directors on the series. He’s co-executive producing alongside Darren Aronofsky ( Black Swan) and Ari Handel ( Black Swan) of Protozoa Pictures, Joe Weisberg ( The Americans), Joel Fields ( The Patient), Courtney Lee-Mitchell, and Jules Jackson. Kindred is adapted by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ( Everybody), who serves as the writer and showrunner of the series.
The rest of the cast features Sheria Irving ( The Good Wife) as Olivia, a free Black woman in the 19th century, Gayle Rankin ( GLOW) as Rufus’s mother, Margaret Weylin, and Austin Smith ( Hamilton) as Luke, an enslaved foreman on the Weylin farm. Butler has won numerous awards for her novels and short stories, including the Hugo for her short works Speech Sounds and Bloodchild and the Nebula Award for her book The Parable of the Talents. David Alexander Kaplan ( Stranger Things) co-stars as Dana’s young ancestor, Rufus Weylin, who is the catalyst for the entire story as he pulls Dana into his world.Īctor Ryan Kwanten ( True Blood) is playing Rufus’s cruel father, Thomas Weylin, owner and master of the tobacco farm Dana travels back to. B y the time Octavia Estelle Butler published Kindred in 1979, she had begun to solidify her place in the science-fiction genreno small feat for a Black woman in a world dominated by white. With the publication of the Patternist Series and Kindred in 1979, Butler was able to support herself on her writing alone. Witnessing his wife’s strange nightmares and sleepwalking, he witnesses her sudden disappearance and must grapple with what to do.
Micah Stock( Escape at Dannemora) co-stars as Dana’s husband, Kevin Franklin. A graduate of Julliard, Kindred marks Johnson's first starring role after having a supporting role in the Apple TV+ original, WeCrashed.
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