Wendi McLendon-Covey and Kal Penn join teen comedy Speech And Debate
Being a teenager is hard. You’ve got all these new emotions, you’ve got hair in places where there was no hair before, your parents just don’t understand, and you’re too young to get references to late-’80s hip hop music. Also, sometimes you have to get your friends together and resurrect your high school’s long-dead speech and debate club in order to expose the hypocrisy of the people in charge. That’s how Deadline describes the premise of Stephen Karam’s play Speech And Debate, at least, which director Dan Harris is going to adapt into a feature film.