Lily Rabe to Lead Independent Film MISS STEVENS

According to Deadline, stage favorite Lily Rabe has been tapped to lead the cast of the upcoming independent film MISS STEVENS, described as a "coming-of-age/character and life study." Julia Hart will direct the film, which she co-wrote alongside Jordan Horowitz.

The AMERICAN HORROR STORY alum will take on the title role, "a teacher who accompanies three students to a high school drama competition."

Rob Huebel, Lili Reinhart, Timothee Chalamet and Anthony Quintal will co-star.

Rabe appeared last summer as Beatrice in The Public's Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing, as well as the 2012 Park production of As You Like It as Rosalind, and the 2010 Park production of The Merchant of Venice as Portia, opposite Al Pacino. She has starred on Broadway in Seminar (Drama League nomination), The Merchant of Venice (Tony, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations; Callaway Award), The American Plan, Heartbreak House (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Callaway Award), and Steel Magnolias (Drama Desk nomination). Her Off-Broadway and regional credits include Miss Julie, A Doll's House, Crimes of the Heart, Colder Than Here, Proof, and others. Rabe's upcoming film credits include Pawn Sacrifice directed by Ed Zwick and The Veil. Other film credits include All Good Things, Letters from the Big Man, Weakness, Aftermath, What Just Happened, The Toe Tactic, No Reservations, A Crime, Mona Lisa Smile, Never Again, and Beyond Redemption. She has been in all four seasons of Ryan Murphy's Emmy and Golden Globe nominated FX series "American Horror Story" (for which she received a 2012 Critics Choice Nomination) and recurs on "The Good Wife." Additionally she stars in the upcoming series "The Whispers" produced by Steven Spielberg.

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