After finding success with her HBO/BBC series I May Destroy You, Michaela Coel is gearing up for another collaboration with her past partners. She’ll serve as the creator and star of the upcoming drama series First Day On Earth, which she described as another deeply personal story.
First Day On Earth will center on British novelist Henri, who feels stuck in her career and relationship, until she gets an offer to work on a film in Ghana, and decides to accept it in the hope she’ll reconnect with her estranged father.
“When she arrives neither the job nor her father turn out the way she expected, and soon Henri has to deal with danger and hypocrisy, form new friendships, lose her illusions, and create a new sense of identity – one that might leave her stronger, but could also break her,” reads the show’s official logline.
Coel described this series as “another very personal story”, and thanked her partners at BBC and HBO for their combined taste, care, and expertise. They’ve previously collaborated on I May Destroy You, which won Coel an Emmy Award for outstanding writing for a limited series.
Coel will serve as the creator and star of this series and one of its executive producers alongside Succession’s Jesse Armstrong, Phil Clarke, and Roberto Troni for Various Artists Limited, Jo McClellan for BBC, and Piers Wenger for A24.
