Rosario Dawson and Offsides Productions have partnered with BuzzFeed to release a new scripted digital short series, Normal Ain’t Normal. The four-episode series will be available to stream weekly via BuzzFeed on BuzzFeedVideo on YouTube and Facebook beginning September 27, 2022.
Normal Ain’t Normal explores the struggles, absurdities, and surprising possibilities of working-class people navigating the strange terrain as we emerge from the pandemic across the U.S. Co-produced by and co-starring Rosario Dawson, the series also features performances from D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs) and Martin Sensmeier (Yellowstone). Following four colorful characters in Oakland, CA who offer a unique, intimate glimpse inside our country’s growing fault lines of race, class, and extreme inequality, Normal Ain’t Normal is a bold and irreverent challenge of what is ‘normal’ – and what ‘should’ be normal – in a healthy society.
Co-producer/Co-star Rosario Dawson said the following:
This series is as full of heart as it is of laughs, and is a powerful reflection of how very real the struggles have been for so many these last couple of years.
As millions of people are dealing with rising evictions, racism, and extreme inequality, Normal Ain’t Normal shows that these injustices aren’t the ‘normal’ we want to go back to as a country. I’m thrilled to be working with this talented team of artists and creative changemakers who are imagining a new way forward. The show is beautiful, provocative, and funny as hell.
Normal Ain’t Normal was directed by Yvan Iturriaga and co-created by Iturriaga and Josh Healey. The series was co-produced by Rosario Dawson and Offsides Productions and co-written by Tommy Orange (NY Times bestselling author), Reem Assil (James Beard Award finalist chef/writer), Yvan Iturriaga (PBS Films), Reyna Amaya (Comedy Central, TruTV), and Josh Healey (NPR Snap Judgment). Healey, who also founded Offsides Productions, previously collaborated with Dawson on the digital series, The North Pole, which Dawson executive produced and co-starred in.