Abbott Elementary Season 5 casts a Shrinking star in a recurring role

Abbott Elementary is going to return for its fifth season on ABC on 1st October 2025. The upcoming season will begin with a new school year at Willard R. Abbott Elementary School with its new challenges. The show follows a documentary team filming the students and teachers at Abbott Elementary. Sometimes they also film what happens in the personal and professional lives of the teachers.

While all the regular cast members of the show are returning for season five, as Deadline reports, Luke Tennie, who is known for playing Sean, has been cast as Dominic for the upcoming season.

Shrinking star Luke Tennie will be starring in Abbott Elementary

As season five's teaser trailer states, the sitcom will return for its fifth season on 1st October 2025. Following season four, season five will be a fresh new year of school. Since there were no cliffhangers at the end of season four, we're yet to know what the show will explore, but based on last season's events, we can expect to see more of Ava and O'shon as they explore their relationship. Besides that, it'll be interesting to see the new ways in which the teachers try to make each day exciting despite having to work with a very tight budget.

The original cast, including Quinta Brunson as Janine Teagues, Tyler James Williams as Gregory Eddie, Lisa Ann Walter as Melissa Schemmenti, Chris Perfetti as Jacob Hill, Janelle James as Ava Coleman, Sheryl Lee Ralph as Barbara Howard, and William Stanford Davis as Mr. Johnson, are returning for season five. Matthew Law, who played O'Shon in season four, will also be returning for season five.

As Deadline reports, Shrinking star, Luke Tennie is joing the show for its fifth season in a recurring role, as a new teacher named Dominic. Nothing else is known about Tennie's new character, but he is set to appear in the season premiere of Abbott Elementary.

Tennie is known for, and has also been nominated for, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for playing Sean in the Apple TV series, Shrinking. Tennie's character, Sean, has anger issues and is a patient of therapist, Jimmy Laird at the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Center. Luke Tennie is also known for playing Griff in Nickel Boys, Bryan Roby in CSI: Vegas, Marcus in The Justice, and Rudy Elmore Jr. in Players.

Abbott Elementary is created by Quinta Brunson, who stars as a lead, and is also an executive producer on the show. The other executive producers on the show are Randall Einhorn, Justin Halpern, and Patrick Schumacker. Werner Walian, Josh Greene, Brittani Nichols, and Scott Sites have produced Abbott Elementary, and the production companies behind the show are Delicious Non-Sequitur, Fifth Chance, 20th Television, and Warner Bros. Television.

Abbott Elementary season five will be released on 1st October 2025 on ABC and will be available on Hulu afterward. The first four seasons of the show are now streaming on Hulu.

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