Zoe Kazan Takes Over Lead Role in Lena Dunham Comedy Pilot for HBO

Deadline reports that Zoe Kazan has signed on to star in the title role of the HBO comedy pilot MAX. Written by Murray Miller and directed by Girls creator Lena Dunham, the actress replaces Lisa Joyce, who was originally cast in the role.

Max is described as "a raucous comedy set in 1963 about the struggles of second-wave feminism, centered on an ambitious magazine writer, Maxine Woodruff (Kazan), looking for liberation. Maxine is an enthusiastic, if misguided, low-level magazine employee who stumbles into the forefront of a civil rights movement both she and the world may not be ready for."

Kazan recently appeared in Manhattan Theatre Club's premiere production of When We Were Young and Unafraid, the new play by Sarah Treem("House of Cards," "In Treatment"), directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon(Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Clybourne Park).

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