Emmy Award-winning actress Loretta Devine, world-famous drummer Sheila E., and renowned ballet dancer and New York Times best-selling author Misty Copeland have joined the cast of Disney Branded Television‘s upcoming series “Eureka!.”
Loretta Devine will voice Eureka‘s grandmother, Wanda, while Sheila E. and Misty Copeland will voice the characters of Yurt, a traveling musician, and Rockanne, a dance teacher, respectively. Also joining the cast in recurring guest roles are Ellie Kemper as the school librarian, Chee; Jack McBrayer as a pet kanga bird; Ryan Michelle Bathé as Barry‘s mom, Sierra; and Wendell Pierce as Barry‘s father, Cliff.
The series is set to premiere Wednesday June 22nd, at 7:30 p.m. EDT/PDT on Disney Junior. An initial batch of episodes will also premiere the same day on on-demand platforms and streaming on Disney+.
Set in the fantastical prehistoric world of Rocky Falls, “Eureka!” follows the story of Eureka, a young girl inventor who is way ahead of her time. She designs inventions and contraptions in the hopes of making the world a better place and moving her prehistoric community into a more modern era. The series stars Ruth Righias Eureka, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Lil Rel Howery as Eureka‘s parents, Roxy and Rollo, and Javier Muñoz as her teacher, Ohm.
Rounding out the “Eureka!” voice cast is Kai Zen as Pepper, Devin Trey Campbell as Barry, Fred Tatasciore as Murphy, Cree Summer as Verna, Kevin Michael Richardson as Dima, Aydrea Walden as Olive and Groopy, Connor Andrade as Clod, Cade Tropeano as Bog, Madigan Kacmar as Julia, Vivienne Rutherford as Lark, Judah Howery as twins Spruce and Cypress Stoneland, Dee Bradley Baker as Ptero and André Sogliuzzo as Link.
“Eureka!” is produced by Academy Award-nominated animation studio Brown Bag Films in association with Disney Junior. Emmy Award winner Norton Virgien and award-winning children’s book author/illustrator Niamh Sharkey are the series‘ creators and executive producers. Emmy Award-nominated Erica Rothschild developed the series with Virgien and Sharkey and serves as co-executive producer and story editor. Film and television writer and director Rusty Cundieff and Emmy Award-nominated television producer Donna Brown Guillaume are consulting producers.
Christiana “Chee” McGuigan, a science educator who has worked at the California Science Center, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, serves as the series‘ science education consultant. Biomedical scientist, social entrepreneur and former senior policy advisor for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. Knatokie Ford, advised on the original series development. Engineering experts from Disney‘s world-renowned Imagineering team advised on the early development of Eureka‘s inventions.
Multitalented singer, songwriter and producer Kari Kimmel is the series’ songwriter, and Emmy Award-winning Frederik Wiedmann is the composer.
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