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Zoe Kazan

The Brightest Light On Broadway: Zoe Kazan

The actress returns to the stage in John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play, Doubt, alongside Liev Schreiber and Amy Ryan

Written by Marshall Heyman
Photographed by Emilio Madrid
Shot on location at Corner Studio New York City

When she read that the Roundabout announced a Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) felt a light bulb flash. (The play won the Pulitzer and the Tony in 2005; three years later, Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman starred in a film adaptation.) “I immediately called my agents and said, ‘If they’re seeing people for Sister James’”—the role played by Amy Adams in the film—“‘Please ask if I can audition,’” Kazan recalls. “I just had this gut reaction. I had to be a part of this. I needed to play this role and be in a room with these people.”

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