Sanaz Toossi

Sanaz Toossi is an Iranian-American playwright and the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her plays include English, which was nominated for five Tony Awards, (Broadway: Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre; Off-Broadway: co-production Atlantic Theater Company/Roundabout Theatre Company, The Wallis Annenberg), and Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown/Audible). She is currently under commission at Atlantic Theater Company, Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, and South Coast Repertory. Sanaz was the 2019 P73 Playwriting Fellow and a recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Horton Foote Award, Hull-Warriner Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and, in 2023, the recipient of the Best New American Play Obie Award. Recent TV credits include Adults (FX). She received her MFA at NYU Tisch. Zan, Zendegi, Azadi.

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