‘Abbott Elementary,’ ‘Wednesday’ Breakouts Board HBO’s ‘DTF St. Louis’

Actors from Abbott Elementary and Wednesday are (temporarily) leaving their respective schools.

Chris Perfetti and Joy Sunday have joined the cast of HBO‘s limited series DTF St. Louis. The show about a love triangle gone wrong is in pre-production. Perfetti and Sunday join a cast that also includes Jason Bateman, David Harbour, Linda Cardellini and Richard Jenkins.

As has been the case with the other actors, details on the roles Perfetti and Sunday will play are being kept quiet for now.

Created by Steven Conrad (Wonder, Prime Video’s Patriot), DTF St. Louis will follow “a love triangle between three adults experiencing middle-age malaise, that leads to one of them ending up dead,” per the show’s logline.

Perfetti plays the extremely earnest teacher Jacob Hill on ABC’s Abbott Elementary, for which he’s won a SAG Award as part of the show’s ensemble and a Critics Choice Award for breakthrough performance. He also stars in Sundance Audience Award winner Twinless. Perfetti is repped by Paradigm, Goodman Genow and ID.

Sunday plays Wednesday’s (Jenna Ortega) frenemy-turned-ally Bianca Barclay on Netflix’s hit Wednesday, whose second season is due to premiere later in the year. Her credits also include episodes of Dear White People and Good Trouble. She is repped by Gersh, Asteria Artists, The Lede Company and Del Shaw.

Conrad is writing and directing DTF St. Louis. He executive produces with Harbour; Bateman; Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch of Escape Artists; Molly Allen; Bruce Terris; Michael Costigan of Bateman’s Aggregate Films; Jennifer Scher of Elephant Pictures; Kristina Wenson of Bravo Axolotl; and MGM Television.