‘Damien’s Megalyn Echikunwoke Joins ‘Step Sisters’

Megalyn Echikunwoke

Megalyn Echikunwoke (Damien) has joined the cast of the ensemble comedy Step Sisters, previously known as Ain’t No Half Steppin. Broad Green Pictures also announced The Middle‘s Ed Sher, Parenthood‘s Lyndon Smith, and Teen Wolf‘s Gage Golightly have signed up for Step Sisters along with Nia Jervier (Dear White People), Alessandra Torresani (The Big Bang Theory), Marque Richardson (All the Way), Naturi Naughton (Power), and Matt McGorry (How to Get Away with Murder).

Step Sisters is written by Chuck Hayward (Bent, One Big Happy) and will be directed by Charles Stone (Drumline). Lena Waithe, Matt Alvarez, and Benjamin Cory Jones are producing, with Josh Reinhold executive producing. Filming’s expected to get underway on June 1st in Atlanta.

The Plot: Step Sisters centers on an ambitious black sorority girl (Echikunwoke) who, in order to get admitted to the law school of her dreams, agrees to cross cultural lines and teach the exclusive art of black Greek stepping to a band of wild, party-obsessed white sorority girls whose charter is about to be revoked.