Based on a play by Tracy Letts,Superior Donuts stars the incomparable Judd Hirsch and rising star Jermaine Fowler as Arthur Pryzbyszewski and Franco Wicks, respectively. The former is the old fashioned proprietor of the local neighborhood donut shop for which the show is named, and the latter is his newest hire -- a young black man whose outlook on life is a little more up to date. (Hirsch and Fowler are pictured at top.)
The roster of supporting characters has its fair share of heavy hitters as well. David Koechner (Anchorman) plays a patron named Carl "Tush" Tushinski who lives life gig-to-gig via a fax machine he lugs around. Katey Sagal (Sons of Anarchyand about 1,000 other cool shows) plays a Chicago beat cop named Randy DeLuca who spends a decent amount of time in the shop both on and off duty. Comedian Maz Jobrani who plays the money hungry Fawz, a local business owner and landlord in the Chicago neighborhood that drops some of the best punch lines in all of the dialogue.
The characters also include DeLuca’s rookie partner James Jordan (Darien Sills-Evans), Franco’s best friend Sweatpants (Rell Battle) and Maya (Anna Baryshnikov), a not-so-urban Millennial who happens to spend a lot of time in the shop. (Fowler, Sills-Evans and Sagal are pictured below, left to right.)