American Pie star Jason Biggs has been added to the cast of Miramax Films’ Jersey Girl for filmmaker Kevin Smith, says The Hollywood Reporter. The project begins shooting this week in Philadelphia and New Jersey.

Biggs, who since April has been starring on Broadway with Kathleen Turner and Alicia Silverstone in The Graduate, will shoot “Jersey” by day on location and travel back to New York to perform onstage at night, with an understudy taking over his role for about five performances because of scheduling conflicts. It marks the second time Biggs has negotiated time away from the play, adds the trade, the first being from June through this month to shoot the Woody Allen feature Anything Else alongside Christina Ricci, Jimmy Fallon, Glenn Close and Danny DeVito.

“Jersey,” which Smith wrote, is about publicist Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck) and the effects a new wife (Jennifer Lopez) and 6-year-old daughter have on his seemingly full life. Liv Tyler plays Maya, a video store clerk who has a significant impact on Ollie. George Carlin stars as Affleck’s father. Biggs will play Ollie’s co-worker and protege.