Sanaz Toossi
Iranian American playwright known for English (winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama) and Wish You Were Here. Her work explores language, identity, and the Iranian diaspora. She holds an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and is based in New York.
Books
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1. English / Wish You Were Here
A paired collection of two plays exploring Iranian identity, language, and the costs of departure and belonging: one centers on adult students in a 2008 English class in Karaj, where speaking a foreign tongue exposes ambition, shame, and the pull of leaving; the other traces a tight-knit circle of women from youthful optimism through revolution, war, and emigration, mapping how friendship, home, and self are remade by history’s pressures.
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