Andrea Martin, Keri Russell, Julia Stiles Among Stage Stars Cast in TV Pilots

A number of stage actors have been added to this season’s group of television pilots, according to published reports.

Stage veteran Mary Birdsong will join television legend Roseanne Barr in her new pilot, Downwardly Mobile.

Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz has been cast alongside stage and television star Jason Ritter in Jason Katims’ NBC drama pilot County, which focuses on the lives of young doctors, nurses, and administrators in a Los Angeles hospital.

Tony Award nominee Jeff Goldblum will guest star in the pilot of Susan 313, playing series star Sarah Silverman’s ex-boyfriend. Goldblum will join the cast of Broadway’s Seminar on April 3.

Stage veteran Mamie Gummer has been cast in the new CW’s medical drama, The First Cut.

Tony winners Judd Hirsch and Andrea Martin will co-star role opposite Ben Falcone in CBS’ untitled comedy about a single 37-year-old who loses everything he has in the real estate collapse and finds himself back home in the house he grew up in with his parents.

Elizabeth Perkins will star opposite Sarah Chalke in ABC’s comedy pilot How to Live With Your Parents For The Rest Of Your Life, about a recently divorced single mom who moves in with her eccentric parents.

Sara Rue will co-star with Reba McEntire in her new ABC comedy Malibu Country, which focuses on a woman who moves from Nashville to Mailbu after her husband leaves her.

Keri Russell will star in FX’s drama The Americans as a KGB spy who poses as one-half of an American couple living in Washington, D.C.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler has joined NBC’s comedy pilot, tentatively tiled DILFs, about three 30-something guys enjoy the adventures of parenting despite the fact they haven’t grown up themselves.

Julia Stiles and David Harbour will co-star in NBC’s Midnight Sun, about a female FBI agent investigating a cult.