‘Rooster’ Season 2 Adds O-T Fagbenle, Sutton Foster, Lamorne Morris, Zavior Phillips, & Michael Urie As Guest Stars

HBO Max‘s Rooster has stacked up the guest stars for its upcoming second season: O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale, Presumed Innocent), Sutton Foster (Younger, The Music Man), Lamorne Morris (Fargo, Spider-Noir), Zavior Phillips (Bad Monkey), and Michael Urie (Shrinking; Oh, Mary!).

Rooster is set on the Ludlow College campus, where author Greg Russo’s (Steve Carell) daughter Katie (Charly Clive) teaches art history. Greg visits for a guest lecture in Season 1 and is offered a visiting professorship and seminar by Ludlow College president Walter Mann (John C. McGinley). Despite Greg’s daughter wishing he would let her figure out her complicated marriage to Russian studies professor Archie Bates (Phil Dunster) by herself, he takes the offer to try to help her out.

The show also stars Danielle Deadwyler as Dylan Shepherd, Lauren Tsai as Sunny Salewski, Annie Mumolo as Cristle, Maximo Salas as Tommy, and Rory Scovel as Officer Donnie Mullins; guest stars also include Connie Britton as Elizabeth Stoddard.

Fagbenle plays Hayes.

Foster plays Marti.

Morris plays Caleb.

Phillips plays Sam.

Urie plays Larry.

Rooster, from co-showrunners Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, is executive produced by Lawrence, Jeff Ingold, and Liza Katzer of Doozer Productions, along with Matt Tarses, Barbie Adler, Annie Mebane, David Hyman, and Carell. The series is produced by Warner Bros. Television in association with Doozer. Both Doozer and Tarses are under overall deals at WBTV.