Sanaz Toossi: Pulitzer Prize Winner In Drama

Held in the Emerald Bay Event Room at the UCI Student Center* Sanaz Toossi is an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, California. She received her MFA in playwriting from NYU Tisch School. Her plays include the critically acclaimed ENGLISH and WISH YOU WERE HERE. Sanaz Toossi will speak about these two plays as well as how her upbringing as a second-generation bilingual and bicultural Iranian American informs her playwriting. Her plays are poignant, caring, powerful, bold, and from time to time, hilarious. ENGLISH is the 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winning play. It takes place in a classroom near Tehran, where four Iranians take English lessons for the TOEFL test. As the travel ban disrupted many lives, English became an essential tool for many Iranians to start a new life and a new i

Toossi will speak about these two plays as well as how her upbringing as a second-generation bilingual and bicultural Iranian American.