WHO IS SANAZ TOOSSI?

≈ She is the playwright of English (and the play Wish You Were Here)

≈ Sanaz grew up in Orange County, California, in a bilingual household

≈ She doesn’t have siblings

≈ When she started writing plays, she hid it from her parents (who suspected she was hiding a pregnancy instead!)

≈ Her parents grew up in Iran, and Sanaz frequently visited her family there

≈ She had two Off Broadway plays premiere in the same year (2022)! English was supposed to have had a first production in 2020, but was delayed

≈ Sanaz also writes for television, including the Prime series A League of Her Own

≈ She says this about tragedy: “Writing a trauma play makes me want to dry heave.”

≈ She says this about comedy: “I am, at my core, someone who loves a cheap laugh. I would fling myself off this booth to make you laugh.”