Whether it’s about immigrants, Iranians, Lebanese people or Jews in Warsaw or transgender characters or whatever those characters may be, I feel that, especially theatre, is like a mirror that you hold up to society either to its past, its possible future, its darknesses, its lightness — things that we don’t want to engage with every day in life because it actually has real-day consequences, but as actors we get to share that with people to have that experience with us, and I think it changes people.
I’m just a storyteller, trying to make the world a little kinder and leave behind something of value.
Pooya Mohseni is a multi award-winning Iranian American actor, writer, filmmaker and transgender activist. She is making her Broadway debut in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer winning play “English” at the Roundabout Theater.
Sanaz Toossi began writing “English,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, now at the Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre, as her graduate-school thesis. The play, a portrait of an English-language class in Iran, was, she has said, her furious reaction to the “Muslim ban”—as Donald Trump’s executive order from 2017 was known—enacted as she was pursuing an M.F.A. at N.Y.U. Toossi has described “English” as her “scream into the void.” The actual show, then, is a surprise: a gentle, subtle experience that calibrates our ears to shifts in pedagogy and understanding.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/03/english-theatre-review-broadway
https://variety.com/2025/legit/reviews/english-review-broadway-play-1236282770/
https://deadline.com/2025/01/english-broadway-review-1236262749/
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jan/23/english-review-broadway
Pooya Mohseni is a multi award-winning Iranian American actor, writer, filmmaker and transgender activist. She is making her Broadway debut in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer winning play “English” at the Roundabout Theater. Her stage credits also include an obie winning performance in English’s off-Broadway run (Atlantic Theater Company,The Old Globe Theater), The Sex Party (Menier Chocolate Factory) in London, Hamlet (Play On Shakespeare Festival), She,He,Me (National Queer Theater), Our Town (Pride Plays), Galatea (The WP Project), The Good Muslim (EST), White Snake (Baltimore Center Stage), and the Audible production of Chonburi Hotel & The Butterfly Club (Williamstown Theater Festival). Her film and television credits include Law & Order: SVU, The Walking Dead: Dead City, Big Dogs, Falling Water, Madam Secretary, Terrifier and See You Then.
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