Through Charlie, the story navigates the alternatingly thrilling, frustrating, terrifying, and captivating journey of finding one’s people and one’s place in the world amidst massive social and political upheaval, while also following a tireless school administrator who comes to her own breaking point as she confronts the tragic realities of her increasingly fraught personal and professional lives. True Biz tells the story of Charlie, played by Simmonds, a Deaf teenage girl struggling to access spoken language, and the hearing CODA (child of deaf adults) headmistress of a boarding school for deaf students, both of whom live in a blue-collar town in the present-day Midwest. EXCLUSIVE: A Quiet Place star Millicent Simmonds is leading a television adaptation of Sara Nović’s upcoming book True Biz – a coming-of-age story of a Deaf teenage girl.ĭeaf actress Simmonds, who broke through in Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck before appearing in John Krasinski’s horror film and its sequel, will star in and exec produce the adaptation, which is produced by Circle of Confusion Television Studios.
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