Already set to write and star in “Woman Up,” Zoe Lister-Jones is now signed on to direct the comedy following its pilot order at ABC. Deadline confirmed the news.
The single-camera project tells the story of two former teen moms. After their daughters graduate high school, the pair decide it’s time to stop working their asses off and “make up for the youth they never had.”
Lister-Jones co-created “Woman Up” with “New Girl” creator Liz Meriwether, and both will exec produce.
No stranger to working behind the camera, Lister-Jones made her feature directorial debut with “Band Aid,” a 2017 comedy about a couple who turn their fights into songs. She penned the script for the pic, and starred. Her other screenplay credits include “Consumed,” “Lola Versus,” and “Breaking Upwards,” all of which she appeared in.
Lister-Jones hired an all-female crew for “Band Aid.” When we asked her about the decision, she said, “On a personal level, I’ve always felt that something very special happens when women come together. I’d only really experienced that in social circumstances, and I wanted to see what it would feel like if that experience was translated in the context of making art,” she explained. “Through my own experience both in front of the camera and behind it, I’m incredibly aware of the underrepresentation of women on film and television crews. I wanted to create opportunities in departments where they’re rarely afforded to them.”
You can catch Lister-Jones in “Life in Pieces.” A sitcom about four generations of an LA-based family, the show has been renewed for a fourth season on CBS with a premiere date TBA.
