Playwright Fernanda Coppel to Adapt Off-Broadway's KING LIZ for Showtime

Off-Broadway's KING LIZ is coming to Showtime.

Deadline reports that Fernanda Coppel's play, which had an extended summer 2015 run at Second Stage Theatre helmed by Lisa Peterson, is being adapted as a half-hour dramedy for the network.

The official description of KING LIZ reads: "Sports agent Liz Rico has money and an elite client roster but a woman in a man's industry has to fight to stay on top. She's worked twice as hard to get where she is and wants to take over the agency that she's helped build. Enter Freddie Luna, a high school basketball superstar with a troubled past. If Liz can keep this talented yet volatile young star in line, she just might end up making not only his career, but her own as well. But at what price?"

Coppel made her New York debut with CHIMICHANGAS AND ZOLOFT at the Atlantic Theater in 2012 and was published by Samuel French. In 2015, Fernanda recieved the inaugural Williamstown Theatre Festival New Play Comission. Her work has been developed at New York Theatre Workshop, Pregones Theater, INTAR Theatre, The Juilliard School, The Lark Development Center, the Flea, the Old Vic (London), Naked Angels, and at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Her work has won the Asuncion Queer Latino Festival at Pregones Theater, the 2012 HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, and the 2012 Helen Merrill Award. She was a three-year Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School and received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU.

No stranger to TV, the playwright has written episodes of FX's THE BRIDGE and DirecTV's KINGDOM.