Fresh off her acclaimed turn in Fox’s Grease: Live, Vanessa Hudgens has signed on to headline NBC’s DC Comics-infused workplace sitcom Powerless, TVLine has learned.
Written by A to Z‘s Ben Queen, the single-camera comedy centers on the exceedingly average employees at one of the worst insurance companies in America — with the twist being that it also takes place in the universe of DC Comics.
Hudgens will play Emily Locke, a claims adjuster who loves her job because she gets to help people, but who is increasingly exasperated by the disruptive antics of the various Super Heroes that proliferate in her city.
Should it snag a series order in May, Powerless would mark the High School Musical grad’s first full-time TV gig.
Hudgens earned near universal praise last month for her work in Fox’s Grease: Live. It was a particularly impressive performance considering it came just hours after her father Greg’s death from cancer. “Thank you to everyone who watched and supported me,”Hudgens wrote on Instagram the morning after the telecast, calling Grease: Live “one of the most incredible experiences.”
