First performed at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festivals,[6] it has since been performed by an array of A-list actors, including F. Murray Abraham, Wayne Brady, Bobby Cannavale, Darren Criss, Brian Dennehy, Joyce DiDonato, Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Lane, Cynthia Nixon, Patrick Wilson, Stana Katic and many more at its premiere in New York City at the Westside Theatre in 2016 where it ran for 42 weeks, produced by Tom Kirdahy.
[3] In summer 2024 it was announced that the play will be performed for the first time in London's West End in October of the same year at Soho place.
[11] The vast array of performers included Freema Agyeman, Olly Alexander, John Bishop, Alan Davies, Daisy Edgar Jones, Omari Douglas, Alfred Enoch, Jill Halfpenny, Jason Isaacs, Pearl Mackie, Sally Phillips, Jonathan Pryce, Michael Sheen, Tonia Sotiropoulou and Deborah Frances-White.
The play run was extended, due to many performances being sold out and new performers added such as Elizabeth McGovern, Toby Jones, Adjoah Andoh, Miriam Margolyes, Stockard Channing, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rory Kinnear, Lenny Henry, Minnie Driver, Ambika Mod and Katherine Parkinson.
[13] Nassim, which requires the actor and audience members to speak Farsi (Persian), premiered in Edinburgh in 2017[5] and played at the Arts Centre Melbourne in early 2018.