Billy Porter To Direct Queer Teen Comedy For Amazon With Gabrielle Union Producing

Deadline is reporting that Emmy/Tony/Grammy-winner Billy Porter is on board to direct a queer teen comedy tentatively titled To Be Real for Gabrielle Union’s I’ll Have Another Productions and Amazon Studios.

Written by Ryan Shiraki, To Be Real is described as an LGBTQ Superbad crossed with Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart. , according to its logline, “an edgy, laugh out loud comedy about three queer high school seniors who go on the ultimate quest to attend their first New York Pride parade.”

I’ll Have Another Productions will produce To Be Real. I’ll Have Another’s Kian Gass, Porter and Shiraki will be EPs.

Porter began production on his directorial debut What If? last month in Pittsburgh. The Orion Pictures film is a modern coming-of-age story that follows a trans high school senior navigating an unexpected relationship.