August 6, 2024 – TRAILER NOW AVAILABLE: Onyx Collective’s “How to Die Alone”

The half-hour comedy series will debut with four episodes on Friday, September 13 on Hulu with new episodes streaming on Fridays.

SYNOPSIS

“How to Die Alone” follows Mel (Natasha Rothwell), a broke, fat, Black JFK airport employee who’s never been in love and forgotten how to dream, until an accidental brush with death catapults her on a journey to finally take flight and start living by any means necessary.

CREDITS

Created by Natasha Rothwell, “How to Die Alone” is produced by ABC Signature in association with Big Hattie Productions. Natasha Rothwell and Vera Santamaria serve as co-showrunners and executive producers. Desiree Akhavan and Jude Weng serve as executive producers.

CAST

• Natasha Rothwell as “Melissa”
• Conrad Ricamora as “Rory”
• Jocko Sims as “Alex”
•  KeiLyn Durrel Jones as “Terrance”

RECURRING GUEST STARS

• Bashir Salahuddin as “Brian”
• Elle Lorraine as “Kaya”
• Michelle McLeod as “Patti”
• Ellen Cleghorne as “Beverly”
• Chris “CP” Powell as “DeShawn”
• Arkie Kandola as “Shaun”
• Jaylee Hamidi as “Allie”
• Melissa DuPrey as “Tamika”
• Michael Hartney as “Josh”
• Glenn Fleary as “Ben”
• Jackie Richardson as “Elise”

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About Onyx Collective

Onyx Collective is a premium content brand under Disney Entertainment Television, with programming exclusively available to stream on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally. Onyx Collective curates globally entertaining stories by creators of color and underrepresented voices, all with a culturally specific point of view, including Oscar(R)-winning documentary “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” “Reasonable Doubt,” Emmy(R) Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary film “Aftershock,” Emmy Award-winning docuseries “The 1619 Project,” “Black Twitter: A People’s History,” “Deli Boys,” “Drive with Swizz Beatz,” “How to Die Alone,” “Queenie,” “Ring of Fire: The Life of Annie Mae Aquash,” “UnPrisoned” and “Untitled Sly Stone” (working title).

The brand’s roster of prolific creators also includes Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media (“Black Panther,” “Judas and the Black Messiah”); Manolo Caro (“The House of Flowers”) and Woo Films; Destin Daniel Cretton (“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”) and his production company Hisako; Jason Kim (“Barry,” “KPOP”); Academy Award(R)-winning filmmaker Joseph Patel (“Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”); Prentice Penny’s Penny for Your Thoughts; Natasha Rothwell (“Insecure,” “SNL”); Yara Shahidi with her 7th Sun Production Company; and Erika Green Swafford and her production company, Chocolate Girl Wonder.

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