Steven Pasquale to Lead DirecTV Comedy ALMOST THERE

According to Deadline, Steven Pasquale, currently starring in Lyric Opera of Chicago's CAROUSEL, will return to the small screen in DirecTV's new comedy series ALMOST THERE. Pasquale will also executive produce.

ALMOST THERE follows "Jackson Cooper (Pasquale), a handsome, eternally single psychiatrist living in New York City. Serial dating and workaholic behavior have successfully helped him avoid long-term commitments, until he meets the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately he fails to get her name, number or any other information. The series follows Jackson on his quest to find her and to finally go about the task of finding himself along the way."

ALMOST THERE will also feature Maddie Corman, Christopher Fitzgerald and Susan Kelechi Watson.

The 10-episode series will premiere this fall.

Pasquale is best known for starring on the FX hit TV series Rescue Me as firefighter Sean Garrity. A regular on the theater scene, he recently starred in The Bridges of Madison County opposite Kelli O'Hara (Drama Desk and Drama League Nominations), and off-Broadway in Far From Heaven, also with O'Hara, at Playwrights Horizons. Other notable credits include Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures at the Public Theater, Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty, A Soldier's Play (Second Stage), LaBute's off-Broadway hit, Fat Pig (MCC), and the Ahrens/Flaherty/McNally musical A Man of No Importance (Lincoln Center, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations). Other television credits include starring roles in NBC's DO NO HARM and the A&E miniseries Coma; he can currently be seen as Johnny Elfman on CBS's Emmy-winning series The Good Wife. His album, Somethin' Like Love, was released in 2009 and featured selections from Broadway and the Great American Songbook.