Alia Shawkat and Natasha Lyonne are joining forces. The multi-hyphenates are developing “Desert People,” a half-hour series at Amazon. Variety broke the news.

Co-created by Shawkat and Lyonne, the series is set in Palm Springs and follows a family of Iraqi immigrants who run a gentleman’s club. “Shawkat will star as the parents’ adult daughter in LA who is coming to terms with her sexuality and identity as a first generation American,” the source details.

Shawkat, Lyonne, and Maya Rudolph, who just won Emmys for her work on “SNL” and “Big Mouth,” are among the project’s exec producers. The former will write for the series.

Though the source doesn’t specify, “Desert People” certainly seems semi-autobiographical. Shawkat’s father is from Baghdad and has run a strip club in Palm Springs since she was young. “It’s something that I have always known has affected me in some way, but I never knew how,” the “Arrested Development” alumna told MIFF in 2018. She described one of her upcoming projects — that seemingly evolved into “Desert People” — as a “much more psychological kind of thing about how family affects our sexual ideas and balancing our feminine and masculine energies inside of ourselves. Sounds kind of heady, but that’s the idea,” she explained. “And it’s not gonna be like ‘and they’re Arabs,’ but I was raised with the culture of an Arabic society in America and it’s not really something that I’ve seen a lot before so I’m delving into that.”

Shawkat previously co-wrote “Duck Butter,” a comedy about two women who decide to have sex every hour on the hour for 24 hours in an effort to fast-track their level of intimacy. She toplines “Search Party,” a satirical comedy that’s been renewed for a fourth season by HBO Max.

Lyonne landed three Emmy nominations last year for “Russian Doll,” a “Groundhog Day”-esque comedy she co-created and stars in. She also served as an exec producer, writer, and director on the critically acclaimed Netflix series, which has been renewed for a second season.