EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max is creating the one-hour dramedy Girls’s Research from Natalia Castells-Esquivel. Dani Chase is the co-creator.
Described as “Expensive White Folks meets The L World sprinkled with some Broad Metropolis humor”. The collection follows Adriana, a Mexican-American, who begins her first day at a ladies’s faculty in Atlanta full of “queer AF, feminist ladies” — nevertheless it doesn’t seem to be Adriana’s scene contemplating she is superficial and a little bit ignorant. However like Alice in Wonderland, her concepts and values are challenged the second she steps on campus. This pilot is loosely based mostly on Castells-Esquivel’s expertise at a ladies’s faculty in Atlanta. The collection explores the lack of innocence and self-actualization because the viewers watches a campus of younger ladies evolve, embracing the brand new, shelling out with the outdated, and determining the best way to topple the heteronormative patriarchy within the course of.
Castells-Esquivel lately labored as story editor for Disney+’s Excessive Faculty Musical: The Musical: The Sequence. She was beforehand staffed on HBO Max’s Era and Netflix’s Ingobernable.
She is repped by Genuine Expertise and Literary.
