Sherri Shepherd is set to star in ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Black Don’t Crack. Kelly Park has been tapped to direct the pilot, from writer/executive producer Regina Hicks and exec producers Viola Davis & Julius Tennon and Larry Wilmore.
Shepherd will produce.Black Don’t Crack follows three former sorority sisters who lost touch after college reunite during a pivotal point in their lives.
They realize sometimes it’s okay to crack and when you do, no one will be there for you like your friends.Shepherd will play Angela Wright, a native New Yorker somewhere between 45 and death but it’s hard to tell because “black don’t crack.” She’s a single mom who’s put aside her musical dreams to raise her son after her husband dies.
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