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Sanaz Toossi, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, makes the leap to star in her own play, 'English'
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This image released by The Press Room shows Narges Kalogli, left, and playwright Sanaz Toossi during a rehearsal for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play “English." The production runs from Sept. 27–Oct. 15 at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass. - photo by Andrew Cromartie/The Press Room via AP
NEW YORK (AP) — Theatergoers seeing the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “English” at the Barrington Stage Company will have a treat this fall. They'll get to see the playwright up on stage. Sanaz Toossi steps into the role she wrote as one of four Iranian students preparing for an English language exam over several weeks in a storefront school near Tehran.