EXCLUSIVE: Chiara Aurelia (Cruel Summer) and Morgan Spector (The Gilded Age) will topline Caity, an independent drama written and directed by Lindsay Calleran, in her feature debut.
Aurelia plays 16-year-old Caity, who along with her newly sober father, Paul (Spector), is preparing for the new Halloween season of their family-owned haunted house. When Caity recognizes the signs of a relapse from Paul, she tries to cover them up but struggles to manage as she tests her own relationship to substances and falls for a new employee, Hannah.
Cast by Susanne Scheel, the film was shot on location at Kevin McCurdy’s Haunted Mansion in Wappingers Falls, NY. Elizabeth Monda and Malcolm Thorndike Nicholson are its producers.
Known for her starring role in Freeform’s Cruel Summer, for which she received a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series, Aurelia is coming off back-to-back stage performances in Broadway’s Tony-nominated John Proctor Is the Villain and Off-Broadway’s Dilaria. Also known for work in Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive, opposite Mila Kunis, as well as Peacock’s Hysteria!, Netflix’s Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Prime Video’s Tell Me Your Secrets, she is repped by Paradigm, Industry Entertainment and attorney Ryan Goodell.
Spector can currently be seen starring as George Russell in HBO’s The Gilded Age, which is heading into its fourth season, and has also recently been seen in Netflix’s limited series Black Rabbit. Also known for roles in Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner Nanny, Showtime’s Homeland, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, as well as the HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, for which he earned a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actor in a Limited Series, he is repped by WME, Untitled Entertainment, and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett and Kole.
Calleran is repped by Daniel Beige at Fox Rothschild.