According to Deadline, Prime Video has cast Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh with Jaden Michael (Colin in Black and White). Michael will play Mickey Bolitar, the teenage investigator featured in a series of novels written by New York Times best-selling novelist Harlan Coben. Feldshuh will be joining the already announced cast of Constance Zimmer, Adrian Greensmith, Abby Corrigan, Sage Linder, and Brian Altemus in recurring roles throughout the season. Coben’s most famous suspense fiction series follows his uncle Myron Bolitar, and the Mickey Bolitar books are an offshoot of that series. Mickey’s first novel, on which Shelter is based, follows him as he faces adversity.
He is a junior in high school and has recently moved to New Jersey to attend a school with a camel as its mascot. His mother is in treatment, his father has died, and his aunt is driving him crazy. Adding insult to injury, he is then visited by a ghostly elderly woman who assures him that his father is still alive. He finds solace in Ashley Kent, another student suffering through tragedy, but when she vanishes, he learns that nothing she said was genuine, and he is sucked into a larger plot that pushes him to discover what happened to both Ashley and his father. Feldshuh has been cast in the upcoming season as Bat Lady, a “wraith-like hermit” who delivers “ominous, terrible news” to Mickey. She joins Shelter just after the premiere of Armageddon Time in Cannes.
She is most recognised for her appearances in Lady in the Water, Brewster’s Millions, A Walk on the Moon, and The Walking Dead, but she has also been nominated for two Emmys for her work in 1978’s Holocaust and a guest appearance on Law & Order. Her recent off-screen activity includes a Broadway appearance in a play of Funny Girl opposite Lea Michele. She’s been performing on Broadway for nearly 40 years, and she’s been nominated for four Tony Awards in that time. Coben will serve as an executive producer on the Prime Video version of his book, which has spawned several programmes and films, such as Tell No One and Hold Tight.
Coben’s daughter Charlotte Coben will serve as a producer on the show, while Erik Barmack will serve as an executive producer with Coben and MGM’s Rola Bauer. Patricia Cardoso, who also acted as executive producer, directed and oversaw the production of the pilot.