Zoe Kazan (MIO ’02) is the creator and writer/showrunner behind Netflix’s new “East of Eden” miniseries, based on the novel by John Steinbeck, starring Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott, and Mike Faist.
In the early 1900s, a fiercely independent woman drives a rift between two brothers, igniting a saga that unfolds across two generations.
More:
Vanity Fair – “East of Eden: Zoe Kazan on How She Made Steinbeck’s Masterpiece Her Own”
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