Justina Machado To Recur on "Superstore"; Heidi Gardner to Guest

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Justina Machado To Recur on "Superstore", "SNL's" Heidi Gardner Also Cast
by Ryan Schwartz
August 28, 2019


Justina Machado will moonlight at Cloud 9 this fall. The "One Day at a Time" star is set to recur on Season 5 of Superstore, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Machado will play new district manager Maya, with whom Amy shares “a surprising connection,” according to co-showrunner Gabe Miller. “She makes Amy start thinking about her own future in a way that also forces Jonah and Amy to think about where they’re coming from, and what they want.”

She’ll make her "Superstore" debut in this year’s Halloween episode, “Trick-or-Treat,” which is set to air Thursday, Oct. 31.




Meanwhile, "Saturday Night Live‘s" Heidi Gardner has been cast as Dina’s never-before-seen nemesis Colleen. She is transferred to Store 1217 after Cloud 9’s Bel-Ridge location gets shut down — and Dina is not happy about it.

“Garrett is still trying to get out of the doghouse with Dina after letting her birds [escape],” teases fellow EP Jonathan Green. “He sees an opportunity to get back on her good side if he makes sure that Colleen is not working there for long.”

Gardner’s episode, which was written by series star Colton Dunn, is penciled in for Thursday, Oct. 10.

https://tvline.com/2019/08/28/supers...trict-manager/