John Higgins, known for his work on Saturday Night Live as a writer and cast member and for Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, has been cast in Scrubs. According to Deadline, Higgins will play major role in season two of ABC’s Scrubs revival series.
Higgins will play Grant, a new chief resident. Deadline said Grant will be “a thorn” in the side of main character John Dorian, J.D., played by Zach Braff (Girls Like Girls, Long Story Short). Grant will create obstacles for J.D. just as J.D. did earlier in his residency years for Dr. Cox, played by John C. McGinley (Are We Done Yet?, Stan Against Evil).
Executive producer Donald Faison (Home Delivery, Alabama Jackson) also shared other cast additions and updates at the D23 event. Keyla Monterroso Mejia (Freeridge, The Estate) will join the show in season two as a recurring member. Mejia will play surgical nurse Mimi. Scott Foley (Will Trent, It’s Not Like That), who served as moderator for the D23 event, will return to the series as Sean Kelly. Ava Bunn’s (A Man On The Inside, Almost Friday TV) character, Tosh, will become a regular next season.
Additionally, Faison announced some characters who will be departing from the series, including X Mayo’s (Yearly Departed, The Blackening) character Nurse Raymond and Joel Kim Booster’s (Fire Island, Loot) role as Dr. Kevin Park.
Aseem Batra (Animal Practice, The Cleveland Show) is the showrunner and executive producer of Scrubs, alongside fellow executive producers Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke (Ricky and Morty, Playdate), Donald Faison, and Bill Lawrence (Shrinking, Bad Monkey), who also created its parent series, Scrubs (2001). 20th Television, a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios, produces the series.
See the return of Scrubs on Sept. 30 on ABC or the next day on Hulu.