Move fast and break people.
Silicon Valley drama The Audacity, about unhinged tech titans, gets its World Premiere at the SXSW Festival on March 14th and streams on AMC on April 12th.
Filmed in Vancouver, the series stars BIlly Magnussen as a tech CEO, Zach Galifianakis as his former mentor, Sarah Goldberg as his therapist and Lucy Punch as his wife.
In the bubble of Silicon Valley, the unorthodox relationship between a wannabe tech titan and his therapist illustrate the Valley’s madness and failings.
Tech lives matter?
Set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, The Audacity takes on the warped dreams, outsized egos, and ethical lapses of the self-styled inventors of the future. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs and disillusioned teens being optimized in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO (Billy Magnussen) strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power. A darkly comedic drama that confronts reality, privacy and the delusions fueling our ever-changing reality.
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The Audacity is centered around a rift between a self-appointed “inventor of the future” tech CEO Duncan Hoffsteader (BIilly Magnussen) and his self-serving “performance psychologist” JoAnne Felder (Sarah Goldberg) who are engulfed in a scandal sparked by the exploitation of personal data.
Zach Galifianakis as tech billionaire Carl Bardolph, who was a mentor to Duncan, but comes back to Silicon Valley as a problem not a saviour.
Sarah Goldberg as Silicon Valley’s self-serving performance psychologist JoAnne Felder .
Lucy Punch as Duncan’s wife Lili Park-Hoffsteader, who is having a retaliatory affair after her own husband’s infidelity.
Meaghan Rath as Duncan’s former mistress Anushka Bhattachera-Phister; the Chief Ethicist at a Cupertino-based tech company and the Big Bang Theory’s Simon Helberg as Martin Phister, the billionaire founder and CEO of an AI company.
Rob Corddry as Tom Ruffage, the Deputy Under Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs who comes to Silicon Valley for help solving a major backlog in his department and Andrew Bushell as Jeffrey Carter.
Ava Marie Telek as Jamison Park-Hoffsteader.
Thailey Roberge as Tess Phister.
Paul Adelstein as Freudian psychotherapist Dr. Gary Felder.
Everett Blunck as Orson Stern.
Randall Park as Gabe, the qualm-free CFO of a data mining operation.
The Audacity Season One:
Episodes: 8.
Vancouver filming dates: April 22 2025 – August 12 2025.
Showrunner: Jonathan Glatzer
Cast: Billy Magnussen, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Goldberg, Lucy Punch, Simon Helberg, Meaghan Rath, Rob Corddry. Paul Adelstein, Everett Blunck, Thailey Roberge, Ava Marie Telek.
Guest star: Randall Park.
Soundstages: Ironwood Studio.
Producer: AMC Studios.
Vancouver Filming Locations:
Surrey Central Library.
