Tony Award nominee Lila Neugebauer (“The Beast in Me,” “Sirens”) has come on board as the pilot director and executive producer for the upcoming Netflix drama series “The Retrievals.”
The project will be showrun, written and executive produced by Molly Smith Metzler, the Emmy-nominated creator of “Maid” and “Sirens.” It is produced by LuckyChap and Quiet Coyote.
Smith Metzler said, “After having the privilege of collaborating with Lila on ‘Maid’ and ‘Sirens’ — and being a giant fan of her Tony-nominated work on the stage — I knew Lila would have the vision and the unique skill to guide our actors through this emotional story. We’re thrilled to have her at the helm!”
Variety revealed on Wednesday that Emmy-winning “Succession” director Andrij Parekh will direct two episodes of “The Retrievals.”
“The Retrievals,” inspired by the Peabody Award-winning New York Times podcast, follows one woman’s crusade against Yale Fertility Center after she (and almost 100 other women) were operated on without anesthesia — because a nurse stole their fentanyl. It is a “powerful and surprisingly funny story about an unlikely community that dares to take on one of the largest institutions in the nation,” Netflix stated.
