“Girls”: HBO comedy series debuts April 15

“Tiny Furniture” filmmaker Lena Dunham created and stars in the new HBO comedy series “Girls,” premiering at 9:30 p.m., Sunday, April 15.

“Girls” centers on four friends in their early 20s, Hannah, Marnie, Jessa and Shoshanna, who’ve been living in New York for a couple of years, but are still not sure what they want in life – from boys, from each other, or from themselves, according to a news release.

Additional cast members in the series include Jemima Kirke (“Tiny Furniture”), Allison Williams (“American Dreams”), Zosia Mamet (“Mad Men”) and Adam Driver (“Angels in America”).

Recurring guest stars include Chris Abbott (“Martha Marcy May Marlene”) and Alex Karpovsky (“Tiny Furniture”).

“Girls” guest stars include Becky Ann Baker and Peter Scolari as Hannah’s parents, as well as Mike Birbiglia, Kathryn Hahn, Michael Imperioli, James LeGros, Richard Masur, Bobby Moynihan, Chris O’Dowd, Lou Taylor Pucci, Andrew Rannells, Jenny Slate and Jorma Taccone.

Dunham, Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner executive produce the show, with Bruce Eric Kaplan and Ilene S. Landress serving as co-executive producers.

Dunham directed five of the ten episodes of the series.

Other directors on the show include Jody Lee Lipes (cinematographer on “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and “Tiny Furniture”), Jesse Peretz (“Our Idiot Brother”) and Richard Shepard (“The Matador,” Emmy winner for “Ugly Betty”).

In addition to Dunham, who wrote or co-wrote every episode of the show, writers on “Girls” include Judd Apatow (“Knocked Up”), Bruce Eric Kaplan (“Six Feet Under”) and Jenni Konner (“Help Me Help You,” “In the Motherhood,” “Undeclared”).