According to Deadline, Emmy Award nominee Shawn Hatosy (Animal Kingdom, Southland) is returning to his recurring role as Dr. Jack Abbot for Season Two of HBO Max’s The Pitt. Fans will also benefit from his behind-the-camera expertise when this medical drama returns.

Hatosy is going to direct one episode of Season Two, officially returning to directing after working on TNT’s Animal Kingdom, in which he also starred, Deadline states. 

The Pitt narrates the imminent challenges that U.S. frontline healthcare professionals must overcome in the emergency department of the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. From creator R. Scott Gemmill (JAR, ER) and producer John Wells (Overtime, One Must Fall), the series follows an hour-by-hour real-time format, tracking medical cases as well as personal crises that physicians and nurses navigate as they deal few resources and an overabundance of patients, Deadline adds. 

“I’m so excited to capture this show from the other side of the lens. The Pitt is an absolute dream for a director. I feel like a chef who gets to work in the best kitchen, with all the best ingredients – incredible writing, great actors, such strong characters with very distinct points of view; all in an immersive, adrenaline-pumped, beautifully choreographed world,” Hatosy shared via Deadline.

“Having experienced it all through Abbot’s eyes, I think that’s going to really enhance my perspective as a director, and what a joy to be able to do it with a group of people with whom I already have such a deep bond,” he added via Deadline.

The Pitt cast is led by executive producer and writer Noah Wyle (ER, The Librarians), Isa Briones (Goosebumps, Takers) Katherine LaNasa (Satisfaction, The Campaign), Shabana Azeez (The Hunting, The Letdown), Taylor Dearden (The Last Champion, Heartthrob), Gerran Howell (Young Dracula, Ludwig), Fiona Dourif (Chucky, Cult of Chucky), Patrick Ball (Law & Order), and Supriya Ganesh (Spoiler Alert, The Principles of Pleasure). Series regular Sepideh Moafi (Black Bird, Class of ‘09), Irene Choi (Arena, Insatiable), Charles Baker (Breaking Bad, Splinter), Lucas Iverson (The Gilded Age, Boys Night), Laëtitia Hollard (Ravel, Transaster) and Lawrence Robinson (Brotherly Love, Three Ways) have been added as to the Season Two cast as recurring, Deadline notes. 

The series is produced by John Wells Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, where JWP is under a deal. Gemmill created The Pitt and he executive produces alongside Wyle, Wells, Simran Biadwan (Manifest, Clean Slate), Michael Hissrich (The West Wing, My Own Worst Enemy), JWP’s Erin Jontow (Untamed, Emperor of Ocean Park), Deadline says.

In July, Hatosy got his first Emmy nomination for his work on The Pitt as Dr. Jack Abbot. The series itself landed a total of 13 Emmy nods for its freshman season, Deadline reports. 

The Pitt is the fifth series collaboration between producer Wells and Hatosy following Southland, ER, Animal Kingdom and Rescue HI-Surf, Deadline states. The events of Season One unfolded across one day, meanwhile Season Two will take place 10 months after the first finale on Fourth of July weekend. It was revealed in the Season One finale that Abbot, combat veteran and attending physician in emergency medicine, is an amputee with a prosthetic leg. Yet, no further background information was revealed, leaving viewers and Hatosy wondering. 

Hatosy is represented by Paradigm and Trademark Talent, Deadline finally mentions.