Amandla Stenberg has been cast in the upcoming movie adaptation of Tony-winning stage musical Dear Evan Hansen, which features music and lyrics from La La Lands Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The actress and activist, who is perhaps best known for The Hunger Games, Sleepy Hollow (OK, maybe only in my head), and The Hate U Give, will play Alana, described by Deadline as “a high school senior whose cheery façade and social-media savvy mask a deeper loneliness and isolation, and whose response to the death of a classmate ignites a movement.”

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