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Genera+ion is a dark yet playful half-hour following a group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community. The ensemble cast includes Chloe East, Chase Sui Wonders, Haley Sanchez, Lukita Maxwell, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Nathanya Alexander, Nava Mau and Uly Schlesinger with Justice Smith and Martha Plimpton.
episode release dates*
march 11EPISODES 01-02-03
march 18EPISODES 04-05
march 25EPISODES 06-07
april 1EPISODE 08
*second half of Season 01 to debut later this year
[RILEY] Chase Sui Wonders stars as “Riley” in HBO Max’s new series Genera+ion. She was most recently seen in HBO’s Betty as well as A24’s On the Rocks (dir. Sofia Coppola) and Daniel Isn’t Real (SXSW 2019). Chase graduated from Harvard with a degree in film production and has co-directed fashion campaign films for brands like Anna Sui and Marc Jacobs.
[CHESTER] Justice Smith is one of Hollywood’s most promising young actors and can be seen starring as “Chester” in the HBO Max series Genera+ion. Previous credits include Warner Bros.’ summer 2019 box-office hit Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, Netflix’s All the Bright Places and the upcoming Jurassic World: Dominion. Outside of his acting career, Smith is making waves in the fashion industry, and is the face of the men’s Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2021 campaign.
[NAOMI] Rising star Chloe East stars as “Naomi” in the new HBO Max series Genera+ion. She was most recently seen in critically acclaimed The Wolf of Snow Hollow (dir. Jim Cummings) and on the ABC series Kevin (Probably) Saves the World opposite Jason Ritter. She made her television debut on HBO’s smash hit True Blood in 2013.
[GRETA] Haley Sanchez is an exciting young actress who stars as “Greta” in HBO Max’s Genera+ion, her first major TV role. Previously, Sanchez starred in the short film Redress in 2019.
[DELILAH] Lukita Maxwell is a burgeoning young talent who plays “Delilah” in HBO Max’s new series Genera+ion. Maxwell began her career onstage in the Tony Award®-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival, and next landed a recurring role in ABC’s hit show Speechless. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Maxwell holds a deep passion for photography, art and design and spends her free time contributing to an online culture magazine.
[SAM] Nathan Stewart-Jarrett is best known for his lead role as “Curtis Donovan” in the E4 hit series Misfits and as “Belize” in the 2018 Tony Award®-winning revival of Angels in America from playwright Tony Kushner. Upcoming credits include Jordan Peele’s Candyman and the Alan Ball produced film Our Last Summer.Additional notable credits include BBC’s Doctor Who, AMC’s Soulmates and Channel 4’s Utopia.
[ARIANNA] Nathanya Alexander was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and is a graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Shortly after graduating, she booked a role in Warner Bros.’ Ocean’s 8 directed by Gary Ross playing the cool teen hacker "Veronica" and starring alongside Rihanna, Sandra Bullock and Sarah Paulson. She stars as “Arianna” on HBO Max’s Genera+ion.
[NATHAN] Uly Schlesinger is a standout actor that has set himself apart with brave and intuitive performances. On the silver screen, Schlesinger can be seen in Travis Fine’s Two Eyes, and on the small screen, his past credits include HBO’s Divorce, NBC’s Chicago Med, and the CW anthology series Two Sentence Horror Stories. He currently stars as “Nathan” in the HBO Max series Genera+ion.
[MEGAN] Martha Plimpton has achieved success across stage, screen and television, winning an Emmy Award® and earning three Tony® Award nominations. Her many starring roles include The Good Wife, The Real O’Neals, Raising Hope, Frozen 2, The Goonies, and the forthcoming MASS, Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat in London, Tom Stoppard’s Coast of Utopia, Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, and Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey on Broadway. In 2012, Plimpton co-founded A IS FOR, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing women’s reproductive rights and ending the stigma against abortion care.
[ANA] Nava Mau is a filmmaker, actress, and cultural worker and mixed-race trans Latina from Mexico City and San Antonio, Texas. Nava wrote, produced, directed, and starred in “Waking Hour,” was selected as a Production Fellow for the Netflix documentary “Disclosure,” and also produced the short films “Sam’s Town” and “Lovebites,” now streaming on the Issa Rae Presents channel. For 8 years, Nava worked in the fields of healing justice and culture change with community-based service providers, student organizations, and survivors of violence.
Ben Barnz often collaborates with his husband under their production label, We’re Not Brothers Productions with notable work including: Phoebe in Wonderland (Sundance 2008), Cake (Golden Globe Nominee) and the upcoming film I’ll Drop a House on You. Barnz is also a critically acclaimed author, his book “We: an adoption and a memoir” was released in 2018.
Daniel Barnz is currently writing, directing and executive producing Genera+ion for HBO Max, which he also co-created with his daughter, Zelda Barnz. His previous directing credits include Cake (Golden Globe nominee), Phoebe in Wonderland (Sundance 2008) and the upcoming I’ll Drop a House on You for PlanB and Macro. Barnz was born and raised outside of Philadelphia and received his BA from Yale University and MFA from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.
When she was just 17 years old, writer and producer Zelda Barnz created and sold the pilot for her scripted series Genera+ion to HBO Max. As an openly queer woman and young showrunner, Zelda uses her voice to tell authentic and genuine stories from her own unique lens. She was accepted to Yale and is deferring until the fall of 2021 in order to shoot Genera+ion.
[RILEY] Chase Sui Wonders stars as “Riley” in HBO Max’s new series Genera+ion. She was most recently seen in HBO’s Betty as well as A24’s On the Rocks (dir. Sofia Coppola) and Daniel Isn’t Real (SXSW 2019). Chase graduated from Harvard with a degree in film production and has co-directed fashion campaign films for brands like Anna Sui and Marc Jacobs.
[CHESTER] Justice Smith is one of Hollywood’s most promising young actors and can be seen starring as “Chester” in the HBO Max series Genera+ion. Previous credits include Warner Bros.’ summer 2019 box-office hit Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, Netflix’s All the Bright Places and the upcoming Jurassic World: Dominion. Outside of his acting career, Smith is making waves in the fashion industry, and is the face of the men’s Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2021 campaign.
[NAOMI] Rising star Chloe East stars as “Naomi” in the new HBO Max series Genera+ion. She was most recently seen in critically acclaimed The Wolf of Snow Hollow (dir. Jim Cummings) and on the ABC series Kevin (Probably) Saves the World opposite Jason Ritter. She made her television debut on HBO’s smash hit True Blood in 2013.
[GRETA] Haley Sanchez is an exciting young actress who stars as “Greta” in HBO Max’s Genera+ion, her first major TV role. Previously, Sanchez starred in the short film Redress in 2019.
[DELILAH] Lukita Maxwell is a burgeoning young talent who plays “Delilah” in HBO Max’s new series Genera+ion. Maxwell began her career onstage in the Tony Award®-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival, and next landed a recurring role in ABC’s hit show Speechless. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Maxwell holds a deep passion for photography, art and design and spends her free time contributing to an online culture magazine.
[SAM] Nathan Stewart-Jarrett is best known for his lead role as “Curtis Donovan” in the E4 hit series Misfits and as “Belize” in the 2018 Tony Award®-winning revival of Angels in America from playwright Tony Kushner. Upcoming credits include Jordan Peele’s Candyman and the Alan Ball produced film Our Last Summer.Additional notable credits include BBC’s Doctor Who, AMC’s Soulmates and Channel 4’s Utopia.
[ARIANNA] Nathanya Alexander was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and is a graduate of LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Shortly after graduating, she booked a role in Warner Bros.’ Ocean’s 8 directed by Gary Ross playing the cool teen hacker "Veronica" and starring alongside Rihanna, Sandra Bullock and Sarah Paulson. She stars as “Arianna” on HBO Max’s Genera+ion.
[NATHAN] Uly Schlesinger is a standout actor that has set himself apart with brave and intuitive performances. On the silver screen, Schlesinger can be seen in Travis Fine’s Two Eyes, and on the small screen, his past credits include HBO’s Divorce, NBC’s Chicago Med, and the CW anthology series Two Sentence Horror Stories. He currently stars as “Nathan” in the HBO Max series Genera+ion.
[MEGAN] Martha Plimpton has achieved success across stage, screen and television, winning an Emmy Award® and earning three Tony® Award nominations. Her many starring roles include The Good Wife, The Real O’Neals, Raising Hope, Frozen 2, The Goonies, and the forthcoming MASS, Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat in London, Tom Stoppard’s Coast of Utopia, Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, and Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey on Broadway. In 2012, Plimpton co-founded A IS FOR, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing women’s reproductive rights and ending the stigma against abortion care.
[ANA] Nava Mau is a filmmaker, actress, and cultural worker and mixed-race trans Latina from Mexico City and San Antonio, Texas. Nava wrote, produced, directed, and starred in “Waking Hour,” was selected as a Production Fellow for the Netflix documentary “Disclosure,” and also produced the short films “Sam’s Town” and “Lovebites,” now streaming on the Issa Rae Presents channel. For 8 years, Nava worked in the fields of healing justice and culture change with community-based service providers, student organizations, and survivors of violence.
Ben Barnz often collaborates with his husband under their production label, We’re Not Brothers Productions with notable work including: Phoebe in Wonderland (Sundance 2008), Cake (Golden Globe Nominee) and the upcoming film I’ll Drop a House on You. Barnz is also a critically acclaimed author, his book “We: an adoption and a memoir” was released in 2018.
Daniel Barnz is currently writing, directing and executive producing Genera+ion for HBO Max, which he also co-created with his daughter, Zelda Barnz. His previous directing credits include Cake (Golden Globe nominee), Phoebe in Wonderland (Sundance 2008) and the upcoming I’ll Drop a House on You for PlanB and Macro. Barnz was born and raised outside of Philadelphia and received his BA from Yale University and MFA from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.
When she was just 17 years old, writer and producer Zelda Barnz created and sold the pilot for her scripted series Genera+ion to HBO Max. As an openly queer woman and young showrunner, Zelda uses her voice to tell authentic and genuine stories from her own unique lens. She was accepted to Yale and is deferring until the fall of 2021 in order to shoot Genera+ion.
Artist, David Puck was commissioned to interpret the series hero art for hand painted wallscapes in NY, LA, and SF. Their work primarily explores LGBTQ+ culture, human experience and mental health, exploring areas of identity, narrative and philosophy. Their mission is to foster healthy, compassionate connection and understanding.
Celebrate the new series and its many characters at Alfred LA today with a special drink and character inspired toppings!
Toppings:
Chester: Cinnamon Powder
Riley: Matcha Powder
Greta: Cocoa Powder
Naomi: Caramel Sauce
Delilah: Toffee Bits
Arianna: Chopped Chocolate Mints
Nathan: Chocolate & Caramel Sauce Duo Limited-Time Only: Matcha Whipped Iced Latte
In the companion podcast to the explosive new HBO Max dramedy Generation, hosts Gigi Goode and Whembley Sewell sit down for a roundtable chat with creators, writers, and actors from the show to unpack a specific episode of the TV series — and ultimately, peel back the many layers of the most complex and evolved generation ever.
Together, the group reveals the origins of each Generation episode: who brought the story to the table, what inspired it, and how it all came together in the writers’ room and on set. In doing so, these intimate conversations uncover how some of the more pressing issues facing Gen Z -- from identity and sexuality to social media and depression — have affected these guests’ personal lives, and directly influenced the storylines and dialogue portrayed within the show.
HBO Max partnered with premier fashion school FIDM and Genera+ion Costume Designer Shirley Kurata to select eight up-and-coming student and alumni designers to create custom-made fashion looks inspired by each of the central characters on the show. The Un-Fashion Showcase was designed by New York-based artist Mason Webb and captured by rising photographer Myles Loftin. Fans can check out the Un-Fashion Showcase in person from April 2 -12, 2021 at The LAB in Orange County, California. The pop-up installation is free, open to the public, and compliant with all local, county, state, and federal COVID recommendations and requirements.
The Genera+ion Un-Fashion Showcase
April 2 - 12, 2021
The LAB (2930 Bristol St Costa Mesa, CA)
Hours:
- Sunday - Thursday: 10AM - 9PM
- Friday - Saturday: 10AM - 10PM
DESIGNERS
Esther Gaor: Arianna
Xander Shephard: Chester
Sofia Elin: Delilah
Robin Giles: Greta
Tiara Slater: J
Ally Dechant: Naomi
Faith Ibrahim: Nathan
Reanne Wang: Riley
SHIRLEY KURATA
Shirley Kurata is a LA based costume designer and wardrobe stylist with a fashion design degree from Parisian fashion school Studio Bercot and a BA in General Art from Cal State Long Beach. Some of the people she has collaborated with include photographer Autumn de Wilde and Juco, designers Rodarte and Peter Jensen, and actors and artists such as Lena Dunham, Pharrell, and Tierra Whack. She is currently costume designing the HBO Max series “Generation.”
