Daisy Head and Casey Deidrick Join Lifetime's A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHTMARE

Deadline has reported that Lifetime's Shakespearean thriller, A Midsummer's Nightmare, has cast its Elena Holland.

Daisy Head has signed on as the lead in the upcoming series. Reports have stated that Lifetime quickly snatched up Head for the show moments after the announcement of the cancellation of Head's FreeForm drama series Guilt.

The show has also found one of its male leads in Midsummer's Nightmare in Casey Deidrick.

Told from the perspective of Elena, a young woman reluctantly drawn into a summer getaway-turned-nightmare, A Midsummer's Nightmare introduces four young lovers who steal off into the woods in pursuit of their romantic desires, but their plans are quickly thwarted when terrifying forces in the deep woods target the stranded group, using their own fantasies and darkest secrets against them. Will Elena and the group rise above their own frailties in order to survive sinister forces? It's only a matter of time until the faces of love and terror wear the same mask.

A Midsummer's Nightmare will be produced by A+E Studios. Jeff Kwatinetz (Royal Pains) and Josh Barry (Salem) of The Firm are executive producing. Anthony Jaswinski (The Shallows) wrote the pilot and serves as co-executive producer. This marks Lifetime's second project with A+E Studios, after UnREAL, the network's most critically-acclaimed series ever, set to return for a third season in 2017. It also marks the network's second pilot this year, in addition to Sea Change, currently in post-production.