NBC Orders Medical Drama from Tony Winner Warren Leight

Deadline reports that NBC has greenlit a pilot order to an untitled medical drama from Tony award-winner Warren Leight, Paul Haggis (Crash) and Sony TV. Leight will pen and executive produce the project.

The drama is described as a real time "extreme event" medical series that will center on "nurses and doctors of an understaffed Brooklyn hospital that becomes the borough's last viable trauma center after a catastrophic hurricane wreaks havoc on the city. On a holiday weekend with few doctors on call, the medical staff will be pushed to make the most difficult life-and-death choices as they work to save their patients and themselves."

Leight wrote the book for the 2012 Broadway musical LEAP OF FAITH. He won the Tony Award for the 1999 original drama SIDE MAN. He also penned the book for the 1985 original Broadway musical MAYOR.

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