The Academy

The Academy is an American adult animated sitcom created by Jorge Frost and Jay Bennett for Vision. The show will be produced by Frost's in-house production unit, Redbar Energy Productions, and Typewriter Productions. Set in a New England area town, at one of the largest second education and college boarding schools in the country, Edgewater Coast Academy & University. The show follows a group of friends, aged fifteen to seventeen years old as they grow up as part of the boarding school, which is filled with stereotypical cliques of people, including jocks, goths, nerds, the preppies, and more. The show was greenlit by Vision in the fall of 2020 with a late summer 2021 release date, later being revealed as August 18, 2021.

Pre-production
The show started pre-production with Jorge Frost temporarily left the production of CyberCity in order to do more research. He would visit multiple colleges and academies around the world that had a Collegiate Gothic style of architecture, which was going to be the main influence of the show. Other places he would visit were old churches and castles that had the same style. He would also interview students at colleges about daily life and interesting stories that they might have.

Frost then started to write the world bible for the series, as well as a narrative bible for storylines based on the accounts he gathered, as well as basic original ideas he wrote up. The narrative bible would wind up being the first two seasons of the show.

Being greenlit
Redbar shopped the show started in the summer of 2020, to Vision and Adult Swim. Adult Swim couldn't afford the series, only off-network syndication rights, while Vision got the first-run rights for the series. ViacomCBS would distribute the show worldwide, as Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution would wind up distributing the show in the United States.

Writing
Both Frost and Bennett would write the majority of the storylines based off Frost's bible, with other writers writing other blocks of episodes, basing their episodes of Frost and Bennett's storylines.

Animation
Animation will take place at Redbar's in-house animation studio, of which Bennett is the creative head, while the co-director, Mya Moreno, is the head animation director for the company. Both direct the majority of the episodes, with two other directors directing the other 10 episodes.

Casting
Casting was provided by NYAV Post, a New York/Los Angeles based recording studio that usually recorded English language dubs of foreign media. The casting director was Redbar Energy veteran Naomi Poole. The cast list and a teaser trailer was unveiled on June 2, 2021.

Renewals
Before the first season aired, a 21 episode second season was greenlit in June of 2021, for the fall of 2022. In July of 2022, it was announced that a $30 million budget was approved by Redbar to develop 50 more episodes of The Academy to be split into two seasons of 25 for the fall of 2023/spring of 2024 and the fall of 2024/spring of 2025.

Students

 * Suzie Yeung as Zoe Lang
 * Jalen K. Cassell as Dominic Edwards
 * Aleks Le as Cameron Lee
 * Hollie Sokol as Lydia Mitchell
 * Casey Mongillo as Ash Dawson
 * Ogie Banks
 * Cristina Vee
 * Ashly Burch
 * Duane Nakia Cooper
 * Kimberly Woods
 * Xanthe Huynh
 * Kenn Michael
 * Grace Lu
 * Johnny Yong Bosch
 * Greg Abbey

Teachers & Faculty

 * Anairis Quinones
 * Erica Luttrell
 * Allegra Clark
 * Imari Williams
 * Debra Wilson
 * Greg Eagles as Professor Gordon
 * J. David Brimmer as Professor Armstrong
 * Johnny Yong Bosch
 * Keith David as Headmaster Palmer