Broadway BUZZ

Zoe Kazan is a film, television and stage actor, as well as a playwright and screenwriter. She previously acted on Broadway in Manhattan Theatre Club’s revival of William Inge’s Come Back, Little Sheba, the world premiere of Martin McDonagh’s A Behanding in Spokane, and the 2008 revival of Chekhov’s The Seagull (Drama Desk nomination). Kazan’s off-Broadway acting credits include: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (The New Group), 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons; Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk nominations), Things We Want (The New Group), Angels in America Parts 1 & 2 (The Signature Theatre), Clive (The New Group), When We Were Young and Unafraid (Manhattan Theatre Club), and Love, Love, Love at Roundabout in 2016. Her television credits include the HBO limited series The Plot Against America and Olive Kitteridge (Emmy nomination). Kazan has acted in many films, including She Said, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Big Sick, It’s Complicated; and Ruby Sparks, for which she also wrote the screenplay (Independent Spirit Nomination, Best Screenplay). Kazan also co-wrote and co-executive produced the 2018 film Wildlife. As a playwright, Kazan has had four plays produced, including We Live Here (Manhattan Theatre Club) and After the Blast (LCT3). She is currently adapting John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden as a limited series for Netflix.