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Tony Award Nominee Marjan Neshat Makes History in Celebrated Broadway Play ‘English’
- This semester, Marjan Neshat received her first Tony Award nomination for her role as a teacher in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, which had its Broadway debut last fall.
- Sanaz Toossi wrote English in response to the travel restrictions imposed by President Donald Trump during his first term, which targeted several mainly Muslim nations.
- Neshat, who fled Iran in 1984 at age eight and has not returned since, also played a teacher in the off-Broadway 2022 play A Cry into the Void, written in English and inspired by the same political context.
- Neshat acknowledged feeling imposter syndrome each time she begins teaching at The New School, stating that although she experiences this unease at the start of every course, she has learned to accept it. She also remarked, “We don’t always belong to what we’re born to.”
- Neshat and her co-star Tala Ashe made history as the first women of Iranian heritage to receive Tony nominations in the featured actress in a play category, competing against each other at the June 8 awards ceremony.
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Tony Award nominee Marjan Neshat makes history in celebrated Broadway play ‘English’
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — Marjan Neshat is a veteran of stage and screen who teaches fledgling actors. Like so many of us, she sometimes has bouts of self-doubt. Related Articles SAG-AFTRA files unfair labor practice charge over use of AI to make Darth Vader’s voice in Fortnite Curtain coming down after 30 years at ‘Inside Edition’ for Deborah Norville ‘Sesame Street’ moves in with Netflix, b…
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Tony Award nominee Marjan Neshat makes history in celebrated Broadway play 'English'
Marjan Neshat, a veteran of stage and screen, teaches fledgling actors. This spring, her students got to celebrate her becoming a Tony Award nominee. Neshat earned the nod for her work — appropriately enough — playing a teacher in Sanaz…
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