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Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama:English Two World Premieres in One Season:These two plays notably premiered in New York in the same 2021-2022 season:Englishat Atlantic Theater Company in a co-production with Roundabout Theatre Company andWish You Were Hereat Playwrights Horizons. Awards for Toossi:Englishreceived the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play in 2022. In 2022, Toossi received the Horton Foote Award from the Dramatists Guild of America.Wish You Were Hereis the recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Toossi's other awards include The Outer Critics Circle's John Gassner Award for new American play, and a special citation from the New York Drama Critics Circle to Toossi for both plays.

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Both contemplative and comic, [English] nails every opportunity for big laughs as its English-learning characters struggle with accents and idioms. But the laughter provides cover for the deeper idea that their struggle is not just linguistic. --The New York Times on English English feels like a breath of fresh air when so many new plays seem to follow a thesis with which the playwright delights in bludgeoning the audience. It's a remarkably mature off-Broadway debut...As in life, there are no clear-cut lessons in English--and that makes it well worth your time. --TheaterMania on English Charting the course of a tight-knit friend group as the Iranian Revolution shakes up its members' lives one intimate conversation at a time, [Wish You Were Here] feels like a night in with the girls while the world outside crumbles and changes. --Theaterly on Wish You Were Here [A] gorgeous and humanizing look at Iranian culture with a deep regard for what its citizens have been asked to sacrifice... In reflecting on each character's evolution, one realizes how easy it is for an unthinkable reality to become normalized especially when one loses access to their dreams and loved ones. --New York Theatre Guide on Wish You Were Here

"""Both contemplative and comic, [English] nails every opportunity for big laughs as its English-learning characters struggle with accents and idioms. But the laughter provides cover for the deeper idea that their struggle is not just linguistic."" --The New York Times on English ""English feels like a breath of fresh air when so many new plays seem to follow a thesis with which the playwright delights in bludgeoning the audience. It's a remarkably mature off-Broadway debut...As in life, there are no clear-cut lessons in English--and that makes it well worth your time."" --TheaterMania on English ""Charting the course of a tight-knit friend group as the Iranian Revolution shakes up its members' lives one intimate conversation at a time, [Wish You Were Here] feels like a night in with the girls while the world outside crumbles and changes."" --Theaterly on Wish You Were Here ""[A] gorgeous and humanizing look at Iranian culture with a deep regard for what its citizens have been asked to sacrifice... In reflecting on each character's evolution, one realizes how easy it is for an unthinkable reality to become normalized―especially when one loses access to their dreams and loved ones."" --New York Theatre Guide on Wish You Were Here"

""Both English and Wish You Were Here are gentle character studies, where an accretion of tiny details adds up to something deeply emotional."" --Jeff Lunden, NPR ""An absorbing seriocomedy, English is one of those invigoratingly funny and perceptively drawn plays that satisfy a curiosity you didn't know you harbored...An elegantly crafted play about the desire to open oneself up to new worlds through new words."" --Peter Marks, Washington Post ""English is both a buoyant comedy of communication and a subtle but probing exploration of what it means to speak out loud and feel understood...A stunning meditation on what makes us human."" --Naveen Kumar, New York Theatre Guide ""In a scene for almost every year from 1978 to 1991, a period encompassing the Islamic Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War, and the country's steps toward economic stability, Toossi chooses to focus on the women and how their relationships to one another change with marriages, deaths, and sudden departures."" --Maya Phillips, New York Times

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Sanaz Toossiis an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, California. She was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama forEnglish.In addition to writing for the stage, Toossi's television work includesFive Women(Marielle Heller/Big Beach),A League of Their Own(Amazon), andInvitation to a Bonfire(AMC).

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