Question: The Monster starred the actress and playwright of what nationality?
Context: The Monster is a 2016 American horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino.  It stars Zoe Kazan and Ella Ballentine.  The film was released through DirecTV Cinema on October 6, 2016, before opening in a limited release on November 11, 2016, via A24. John Michael McDonagh is a screenwriter and film director with British and Irish nationality.  He wrote and directed "The Guard" (2011) and "Calvary" (2014), both films starring Brendan Gleeson, receiving a BAFTA Award nomination for the former.  He was born in London in 1967.  He is the older brother of playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh. Zoe Swicord Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress and playwright.  Kazan made her acting debut in "Swordswallowers and Thin Men" (2003) and later appeared in films such as "The Savages" (2007), "Revolutionary Road" (2008) and "It's Complicated" (2009).  She starred in "happythankyoumoreplease" (2010), "Meek's Cutoff" (2010) and "Ruby Sparks" (2012), writing the screenplay for the latter.  In 2014, she starred in the film "What If" and the HBO mini-series "Olive Kitteridge", for which she received an Emmy nomination.  In 2017, she portrayed Emily Gardner, who is based on Emily V. Gordon, in the film "The Big Sick". Ra’ouf Mus'ad (رَؤُوف مُسَعد; sometimes known as Raouf Moussad-Basta) is a playwright, journalist and novelist who was born in Sudan to Coptic parents from Egypt.  He moved to Egypt as a teenager and lived in various countries, both in the Middle East and in Europe, during the past 30 years.  He has now settled in Amsterdam with his Dutch wife and their children and has taken Dutch nationality. Alfredo Arias (born 4 March 1944) is a theatre producer, actor and playwright.  Born in a Buenos Aires suburb, he has subsequently acquired French nationality and, since 1969 or 1970, been based in Paris. Matija Ban (Serbian Cyrillic: ; 1818–1903) was a Serbian poet, dramatist, and playwright, born in the city of Dubrovnik, who became known as one of the first Catholics from Dubrovnik who expressed a Serb nationality.  He settled in Serbia in 1844, and engaged in various diplomatic missions in service of the Principality of Serbia. The Giant Gila Monster is a 1959 hot rod/monster/science fiction film, directed by Ray Kellogg and produced by Ken Curtis.  This low-budget B-movie starred Don Sullivan, a veteran of several low budget monster and zombie films, and Lisa Simone, the French contestant for Miss Universe of 1957, as well as comedy relief Shug Fisher and KLIF disc jockey Ken Knox.  The effects included a live Mexican beaded lizard (not an actual Gila monster) filmed on a scaled-down model landscape.  The movie is considered a cult classic. Lawrence Holofcener (February 23, 1926 – March 4, 2017) was an American-British sculptor, poet, lyricist, playwright, novelist, actor and director.  He held dual British and American nationality.  As a singer and songwriter he was better known as Larry Holofcener.  He died in March 2017 at the age of 91. .  As a tribute to his transatlantic love affair with England, his obituary was printed in UK's "The Daily Telegraph". Monster Mash (also known as Monster Mash: The Movie and Frankenstein Sings) is a horror-themed musical film, based on the Bobby "Boris" Pickett song "Monster Mash" and the 1967 stage musical, "I'm Sorry the Bridge is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night", also by Pickett and Sheldon Allman.  The film starred Pickett himself as Dr. Frankenstein, was produced and distributed by Prism Pictures, and originally released to cinemas in November 14, 1995. Taeko Kōno (河野 多惠子 , Kōno Taeko , February 24, 1926 – January 29, 2015) is one of the most important Japanese women writers of the second half of the twentieth century, someone whose influence on contemporary Japanese women writers is acknowledged to be immeasurable.  Kōno is one of a generation of remarkable women writers who made an appearance in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s and who include Kurahashi Yumiko, Mori Mari, Setouchi Harumi, and Takahashi Takako (Japanese name order).  She also established a reputation for herself as an acerbic essayist, a playwright and a literary critic.  By the end of her life she was a leading presence in Japan's literary establishment, one of the first women writers to serve on the Akutagawa Literary Prize committee.  Oe Kenzaburo, Japan's Nobel Laureate, described her as the most "lucidly intelligent" woman writers writing in Japan, and the US critic and academic Masao Miyoshi identified her as among the most "critically alert and historically intelligent."  US critic and academic Davinder Bhowmik assesses her as “…one of the truly original voices of the twentieth century, beyond questions of gender or even nationality.”  A writer who deals with some quite dark themes, Kōno is known to readers in English through the collection of short stories "Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories" (New Directions, 1996), which draws together her best writing from the 1960s.
Answer: American