Emma & Alyssa: A Prom Animated Series

Emma & Alyssa: A Prom Animated Series is an American animated buddy comedy television series based on the broadway musical "The Prom" created by Bob Martin, Matthew Sklar, and Chad Beguelin. The series serves as a spin-off of "The Prom", as well as a direct sequel as it takes places after the events of the musical.

Plot
The series takes place after the events of the musical "The Prom" and focuses on Emma Nolan and her girlfriend Alyssa Greene as they create a club/support group/initiative called the Unruly Hearts Club (UHC) for LGBTQ+ people around the world and learning to accept others for who they really are as well as going on crazy adventures throughout Edgewater, Indiana.

Voice Cast
Main

Caitlin Kinnunen as Emma Nolan, Alyssa's girlfriend and a lesbian teenage girl and one of the co-founder of the Unruly Hearts Club.


 * Kinnunen also appears as herself in live-action form introducing the episode after the intro and closing the show before the end credits roll with McCalla.

Isabelle McCalla as Alyssa Greene, a cheerleader who is Emma's girlfriend and one of the co-founder of the Unruly Hearts Club.


 * McCalla also appears as herself in live-action form introducing the episode after the intro and closing the show before the end credits roll with Kinnunen.

Keegan-Michael Key as Tom Hawkins, the principal of James Madison High School.

TBA as Trent Oliver, a Juilliard graduate who is between gigs, once starred in the sitcom Talk to the Hand, and is now a drama teacher at James Madison High School.

Kalyn West as Shelby, Alyssa and Kaylee's cheerleader friend who lost her virginity and once disapproves of Emma taking a girl to prom until Trent Oliver taught her and the other students to follow the "love thy neighbor" rule. Her middle name is Ashley.

Becca Lee as Kaylee, Alyssa's cheerleader friend who has a small tattoo on her wrist and also once disapproves of Emma taking a girl to prom until Trent Oliver taught her and the other students to follow the "love thy neighbor" rule. Her middle name is Mandy. In one episode it revealed that Kaylee is afraid of going to the dentist.

Drew Redington as Kevin Shield, Shelby's boyfriend.

Teddy Toye as Nick Boomer, Kaylee's boyfriend whose parents are divorced.

Courtenay Collins as Mrs. Greene, Alyssa's mother and the head of Edgewater's PTA. After the events of The Prom, she's learning to be more accepting towards LGBTQ+ people and learn how to be an ally to the LGBTQ+ community instead of being an enemy.

Jo Ellen Pellman as Alex, one of the two new students at James Madison High School who was originally homeschooled with her adopted sister Syd. She and Syd are both gay like Emma and Alyssa who they befriend on their first day. Alex and Syd were adopted by a gay couple at a young age. Alex is an original character made for this show who wasn't in the Broadway show or the movie.

Ariana DeBose as Syd, one of the two new students at James Madison High School who was originally homeschooled with her adopted sister Alex. She and Alex are both gay like Emma and Alyssa who they befriend on their first day. Syd and Alex were adopted by a gay couple at a young age. Syd is an original character made for this show who wasn't in the Broadway show or the movie.

Supporting Characters

Mary Kay Place as Grandma Bea, Emma's supportive grandmother who raised her when Emma's parents kicked her out of their house for coming out to them.

TBA as Dee Dee Allen

Guest Characters

Angie Schworer as Angie Dickinson

TBA as Barry Glickman

TBA as Sheldon Saperstein, Dee Dee and Barry's publicist.

TBA as Jerry Hampshire, host of the reality documentary show, "Small Towns, Big Stories". He was also seen in an episode of Wanda's World: The Animated Series.

Special Guest Characters

Constance McMillen as Herself, a lesbian from Fulton, Mississippi who once attended Itawamba County Agricultural High School until they cancel her prom because she had plans to bring her girlfriend to their senior prom and wear a tuxedo similar to Emma's situation in "The Prom". She visits Edgewater when she discovered that Emma and Alyssa's story was similar to her.

Mallory Bechtel as Wanda Butternut, a character from Wanda's World: The Animated Series. She's 12 year old girl who has a huge birthmark on the side of her face and the host of Cheese Valley Middle School's TV Show, Wanda's World. In the crossover, it reveals that she and Emma have been best friends since summer camp years before the events of "The Prom" took place.

Jojo Swia as Herself, a real-life celebrity who visits Edgewater for her concert tour. She mets and befriends Emma and Alyssa during her visit and taught them to ignore the haters and homophobes who want to bring LGBTQ+ people down while facing problems of her own. She also made an appearance in the Unruly Pride History segment and shared her story of coming-out to the Unruly Hearts Club (Which took place in the same episode).

Season One

 * 1) Pilot
 * 2) New Gays on the Block
 * 3) Untitled Cheerleading Episode
 * 4) Swim Emma Swim
 * 5) Girl, Where’s My Ranch
 * 6) Untitled Crossover with Wanda's World: The Animated Series
 * 7) Kaylee vs the Dentist/Angie's Return
 * 8) A Greene Episode
 * 9) Reunited and It Doesn’t Feel So Good/Daddy Issues
 * 10) Untitled Wanda’s World Crossover 2/Untitled Hawkins and Dee Dee Episode
 * 11) The Unruly Hearts Band/When Emma Met Alyssa
 * 12) Small Towns, Big Stories: Edgewater
 * 13) Constance McMillen Episode
 * 14) Emma and Alyssa: Into The Prom-Verse
 * 15) Halloween Episode/Untitled Scooby-Doo Parody Episode
 * 16) JoJo Siwa Episode

Trivia

 * This show is a spin-off to The Prom as well as a direct sequel as it takes place after the events of the musical.
 * Most of the cast from the broadway version of The Prom are respiring their roles for this show.
 * Some of the cast from the Netflix movie are also set to be in the series.
 * Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla are respiring their roles as Emma and Alyssa from the Broadway show, while Jo Ellen Pellman and Ariana DeBose who portrayed them in the movie will play new characters for the show. Two teenage girls named Syd and Alex.
 * Jo Ellen Pellman and Ariana DeBose respire their roles as their versions of the titular characters from the Netflix movie in the episode, "Emma and Alyssa: Into The Prom-Verse".
 * This show shares the same universe as Wanda's World: The Animated Series. There are currently plans for crossovers between the two shows. As will as of a possible Broadway Television Universe to expand some of the Broadway show's universes. For example, The Connor Project from Dear Evan Hansen exist within both this show and Wanda's World: The Animated Series. As well as a show called "Small Towns, Big Stories", a reality documentary series that goes to small towns in the world and discover big and interesting stories about or in those towns which characters from both shows have appeared in.
 * This show features a gay family: Alex and Syd and their two adopted dads.
 * Shelby and Kaylee's middle names are a reference to their original names from the Atlanta production of The Prom.
 * The show is rated TV-14. but some episodes are rated TV-PG.
 * The Unruly Hearts Club is based on the real life initiative called the Unruly Hearts Initiative which was created to help young people connect with organisations and charities that advocate for the LGBTQ+ community launched by The Prom movie stars Jo Ellen Pellman and Ariana DeBose.
 * Most of the guest stars who appear on the show are either a member of the LGBTQ+ community or an ally of the community.
 * This show features live-action segments in the beginning and the end of the show hosted by Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla who portrayed the title characters in the Broadway show. Similar to other animated shows with live-action segments such as Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Stuart Little (2003 TV series), and Mike Tyson Mysteries.
 * Constance McMillen guest stars in an episode. McMillen is a real life person who once attended Itawamba County Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi and was banned from attending their school prom for wanting to bring her girlfriend to their senior prom and wear a tuxedo in 2010. This real event was the inspiration to The Prom.
 * Near the end of each episode, there's a mini-segment titled "Unruly Pride History" where Emma and/or Alyssa teaches their friends (and the viewers) fun facts, topics and the history of the LGBTQ+ Community. Sometimes it ends with unexpected results to both of them. Similar to other mini-segments from other shows like "Sonic Says" from The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog and "Mike's Comedy Class" from Disney and Pixar's Monsters at Work.
 * The end credits features behind the scenes, footages, Instagram stories and interviews from and of The Prom (broadway and the movie) and the show, most of them of Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla.
 * This is the second show to be produced by Williams Street that doesn't air on Adult Swim. The first was Wanda's World: The Animated Series (Second half of season two and throughout).