Michelle Trachtenberg

Michelle Trachtenberg To Develop & Star In CW Drama Produced by Josh Schwartz

CW has handed out a script order to an untitled drama project starring Gossip Girl’s Michelle Trachtenberg, which marks the actress’ producing debut. The project, from Warner Bros. TV, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s studio-based Fake Empire, and CBS TV Studios, is based on an idea by Trachtenberg and would star the actress as a young criminology student with a gift for profiling and a dark past. Stuart Zicherman will write the script and executive produce alongside Schwartz, Savage and Len Goldstein. Trachtenberg will serve as producer. This is Schwartz’s second hourlong project this season toplined by a young actress from one of his other shows. Schwartz is writing Ghost Angeles, a supernatural romantic comedy starring The O.C. alumna Rachel Bilson, which received a pilot production commitment from NBC. Trachtenberg has been recurring Schwartz and Savage’s CW drama Gossip Girl for the past 2 years. Trachtenberg will next be seen in Kids in America.