Jeremy O. Harris and Aziza Barnes
Playwrights Jeremy O. Harris (2020 Tony nominee for
BLKS) have been tapped to adapt Brit Bennett s
The Vanishing Half for HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The two writers will also executive produce the new series based on the best-selling novel along with writer Bennett, Issa Rae (
Insecure), Academy Awards producer Stephanie Allain and Gabrielle Ebron for Homegrown Pictures; and Montrel McKay and Sara Rastogi for Hoorae.
Published in 2020,
The Vanishing Half concerns identical twins who leave their southern Black community as teenagers. A decade later, the lives of the two sisters, separated by miles and lies, are completely different, yet their fates remain intertwined.