Judith Light joins Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear in the STARZ horror comedy Shining Vale.

Judith Light, Shining Vale

STARZ announced today that Emmy^® & Tony^® award-winning actress Judith Light will join the STARZ Original Series Shining Vale in a guest star role, alongside Golden Globe^®nominee Courteney Cox (Friends,Cougar Town), Academy Award^®nominee and Emmy^® Award winner Greg Kinnear andOscar^® winner Mira Sorvino.

The chilling half-hour show is a horror comedy about a dysfunctional family that moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But no one seems to notice except for Pat (Cox), who’s convinced she’s either depressed or possessed – turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same.

Patricia “Pat” Phelps (Cox) is a former “wild child” who rose to fame by writing a raunchy, drug-and-alcohol-soaked women’s empowerment novel (a.k.a. lady porn). Fast forward 17 years later, Pat is clean and sober but totally unfulfilled. She still hasn’t written her second novel, she can’t remember the last time she had sex with her husband (Kinnear), and her teenage kids are at that stage where they want you dead.

She was a faithful wife until her one slip-up: she had a torrid affair with the hot, young handyman who came over to fix the sink while hubby Terry was at work. In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, she and Terry cash in all their savings and move the family move from the “crazy” of the city to a large, old house in the suburbs that has a storied past of its own. Everyone has their demons, but for Pat Phelps, they may be real.

Light will play “Joan,” Pat’s Lithium-infused mother, who has long battled mental illness. Joan is vain and hyper-critical, taking any opportunity to recall her prized youth, or belittle Pat. Of all the horrors that Pat faces, becoming Joan is the most frightening– and most real.

Shining Vale is executive produced by Jeff Astrof from Other Shoe Productions, Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford,  and Dana Honor Courteney Cox is producer. Astrof wrote the pilot teleplay, from a story by Horgan & Astrof. The series is produced by Warner Bros. Television and Lionsgate Television in association with Other Shoe Productions, Merman and Kapital Entertainment.

“Shining Vale” will air on STARZ in the U.S. and Canada and on its international streaming platform STARZPLAY across Europe, Latin America and Japan.

Judith Light joins Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear in the STARZ horror comedy Shining Vale.