UK newcomer Shannon Tarbet will also star in Locomotive Media’s upcoming dark comedy.

Look Away follows a young woman who cannot see her mother due to a fictitious affliction called selective blindness and enlists the help of an eccentric psychiatrist and a love interest.

Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom of BigTV! will direct from a screenplay by Jennifer Schuur. Production will begin on June 8 in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Producers Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Alexandra Kerry of Locomotive Media announced the casting on Thursday.

Alexis Alexanian, Peter Friedlander and Lizzie Nastro will serve as executive producers.

New Regency, with whom Locomotive is setting up a development fund, are also on board as executive producer and co-financier.

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