Emmy Award nominee Margaret Cho’s signed on to play a high school counselor in Disney+’s Prom Pact, a romantic comedy set during prom season. Monique Green (Big Shot), Arica Himmel (Mixed-ish), and Blake Draper have also just joined the cast of the rom-com directed by Anya Adams (Ginny & Georgia).
Peyton Elizabeth Lee and Milo Manheim were previously announced to star. Anthony Lombardo (American Housewife) wrote the screenplay and Jake Kasdan, Melvin Mar, Julie Bowen, and Rachael Field are executive producing.
Filming is currently underway with Disney+ targeting a spring 2023 premiere.
Disney+ released the following details on the plot and characters:
It’s the height of prom season, and high school senior Mandy Yang (Lee) and her best friend and fellow outsider Ben (Manheim) are surrounded by over-the-top ’80s-themed Promposals. However, Mandy keeps her eyes focused on a different goal: her lifelong dream of attending Harvard. When she finds out that she has put on the waitlist, she is determined to do whatever she can do to get herself accepted, even if that means asking for help from the one person she abhors – popular all-star jock Graham Lansing, whose father is a powerful senator and Harvard alum. Once Mandy becomes Graham’s tutor, she begins to realize there’s more to him than she thought and perhaps something more to life than Harvard.
Margaret Cho plays Ms. Chen, a sarcastic counselor with a great sense of humor and quick wit who helps Mandy with her attempts to get into Harvard. Blake Draper will also star as high school athlete Graham Lansing, while Monique Green will portray popular cheerleader LaToya. Arica Himmel and Jason Sakaki are Mandy’s close friends Zenobia and Charles, and David S. Jung plays her dad, Tom.
