Emmy Award-winning Sykes plays Cheryl No Mercy Stewart, a two-time former boxing champion and recovering alcoholic.
Undercardmarks the sixth production in two years for Catalyst Studios.
It is about the struggle and survival of the human spirit.
Bentley Green, Wanda Sykes, William Stanford DavisGetty Images
Getting up when life does its best to knock you down.
This powerful, moving story is a metaphor for our own challenges.
And it shows Wanda like we have never seen her before, said Catalyst Studios Chairperson Holly Anderson Levow.
Veteran producer Anne Clements along with local producers Frances Lausell and Andres Ramirez are overseeing production in Puerto Rico.
Kim Coleman is Co-Producer.
Sykes also serves as an executive producer.
