Feeling Better, Parker Posey to Star in FIlm 'Highland Park'

The Lucille Lortel Award-winning Parker Posey has joined the cast of the new film, Highland Park, a comedy currently shooting in Detroit. This comes a couple of months after the actress dropped out of Playwrights Horizon's THIS due to a case of Lymes Disease. Parker was replaced by JuliAnne Nicholson in the production, which begins previews on November 6 and runs through December 2.    

Highland Park is directed and produced by Andrew Meieran.  The film was additionally written by Meieran along with Christopher Keyser. 

Posey plays former homecoming queen Shirley Paine in the film, who is now the mayor of Detroits' Highland Park. Danny Glover co-stars in the film as a high school teacher in the economically struggling community. Highland Park is the site of the early Ford Motor Co. manufacturing plant in the days of Henry Ford.

The filmmakers hope that the film (and a related documentary) will help re-open a local library in the community.

Posey starred in the Off-Broadway revival of Hurlyburly (Lortel Award) and Fifth of July (Lortel nominated). Her stage credits include Broadway's Taller Than a Dwarf, Geffen Playhouse's Four Dogs and a Bone, TV's "As the World Turns," "Tales of the City," "Hell on Heels: the Battle of Mary Kay" (Golden Globe nomination) and the films "The Daytrippers," "The House of Yes," "Clockwatchers," "Waiting for Guffman," "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind." She has been deemed "Queen of the Indies" for her extensive independent film resume.

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