Dominic Daniel is a multifaceted creator based in California. With roots in Detroit, he has built a career as an actor, writer, director, and producer. His acting credits include The Shield, Shameless, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., NCIS: LA, and How to Get Away with Murder. Beyond acting, he founded a production company (Rock City Media), directed indie short/feature films, and writes scripts for Film and Television, short stories and children’s content. He brings lived experience from his multicultural and interracial family to Urban Family.
Casey Zeman grew up in Detroit, where he launched into music and theater, performing on stages in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, along with appearances in commercials, TV, and film. Over time, he expanded into entrepreneurship — founding EasyWebinar, authoring, coaching, and building platforms for creators. As someone personally in a transracial adoptive family (his two sons from Haiti), Casey brings both creative and lived insights into Urban Family.
Urban Family was born out of Dominic’s and Casey’s shared passion to tell stories that explore adoption, identity, queer life and family beyond blood.
Casey’s journey embraces adoption across race and nationality: building his own transracial family, and seeing firsthand what it means to bridge cultural, racial, and identity gaps.
Dominic comes from an interracial/mixed background and queer identifying family and believes deeply in “chosen family” — that connection and love define family more than genetics.
Their collaboration on this project reflects a mutual vision: shifting narratives, raising awareness of adoption’s emotional and cultural dimensions, and showing that love transcends boundaries.
URBAN FAMILY is a one-hour drama about how a family is defined. How we make them. How we break them. And how we put them back together again. At times upbeat and optimistic, but at the same time heavy, like the weight of the world can crush down on us at any moment. The Hung family is the show’s center an eclectic family woven together through a combination of love and conation. Like the Hung’s experiences, the show will buck conventional stories and opt for fresh and engaging ways to illuminate new perspectives of thinking. Urban Family signifies a fundamental sense of inclusion for the audience through unique storytelling, energetic visual style, and representative casting. From the locations to the storylines, the show’s look will be as diverse and reflective as the people who collide and cross on the streets of L.A.
Bustling streets, trending bars, and the best high-end brand name shopping. What more could you ask for? Adequate grocery parking, maybe? The Wilshire area in the heart of Los Angeles is known for many things, but family-friendly living isn’t one of them. Nonetheless, that’s what Chris, Deidra, and their adoptive parent’s group plan to do: Find a way to raise healthy, productive, happy little human beings in a city famously known for its glitz and glamour as well as its crime and corruption.
