Season 2 revolved around saving Angela/Emily (Alia Shawkat), a goal that required ... "It starts off with them reuniting in this beautiful scene -- them seeing each other after he thought she ...

This could be her chance to get cast in a real role. Shawkat’s spry comedic timing works well at the beginning of Atropia; the actress is clearly having fun playing an aspiring star ...

In season 2 of Severance, Alia Shawkat joins the cast as Gwendolyn Y., a new member of the Macrodata Refinement (MDR) department. Gwendolyn Y. is one of three fresh faces welcoming Mark Scout ...

Based on her 2020 short “Shako Mako,” Hailey Gates writes and directs “Atropia,” a unique war satire about western views of ...

The residents of ‘Atropia’ are all actors, paid to make that illusion as authentic as possible. None of them take it more ...

In writer-director Hailey Gates’ directorial debut, she dives into the Bush-era culture of toxic masculinity, nationalism and Islamaphobia with an amusing and profoundly absurdist sense of satire. Set ...

Alia Shawkat stars as Fayruz, an ambitious actress determined to make her big break in Hollywood while working in the simulation, despite her conflicting feelings about the war in Iraq.