Sanaz Toossi is an American playwright and screenwriter.
Her play English won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2023.
[1] Of Iranian descent, Toossi is from Orange County, California;[2] her mother emigrated to the United States after the Iranian Revolution.
[3] She is an only child,[4] and grew up a self-described "weird theatre kid".
[5] She graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts in 2018,[3] having previously received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.