Playwright Donald Margulies has signed on to adapt Jeffrey Eugenides’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex for a new HBO series, according to Variety. Actress/producer Rita Wilson will spearhead the series as executive producer.
Middlesex centers on the complicated life and family history of Calliope Stephanides, a hermaphrodite who lives as a girl until becoming “Cal” as a teen. The book won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. No casting or premiere date for the HBO series has been announced.
Margulies, a Pulitzer Prize winner for Dinner with Friends, was represented off-Broadway last season with Shipwrecked and has two Broadway productions on tap at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in the coming season: the New York premiere of Time Stands Still (starring Laura Linney) and a revival of Collected Stories (starring Linda Lavin).