Academy Award winner Frances McDormand (Fargo, Burn After Reading) has lined up two projects, according to Deadline, in which she will assume the role of producer.

McDormand looks set to produce a small screen adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge, a project currently set up at HBO.

The deal, which is still being negotiated, will also see McDormand cast as the town’s titular maths teacher providing the pilot goes to series. An ensemble drama being shaped by Jane Anderson (HBO’s “Normal”), the project will allow McDormand to honour her other acting obligations.

McDormand is also attatched to produce a big screen adaptation of Laura Lippman’s crime novel Every Secret Thing, which has already been written and submitted by Nicole Holofcener. With Academy Award nominee Diane Lane (Untraceable) set to star as a detective tasked with investigating the disappearance of numerous children, Every Secret Thing follows two young girls who are wrongly imprisoned for the death of a baby. When released after seven years of incarceration, other children start going missing.

McDormand is currently filming Transformers 3, with Paolo Sorrentino’s thriller This Must Be the Place up next when she has finished fighting robots.