Wish You Were Here

Theatre

Name:	Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Address:	416 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036

Production Information

First performance date:	April 13, 2022
Opening date:	May 3, 2022
Closing date:	June 5, 2022
External Links:	Official Website

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Production Description

It’s 1978 and protests are breaking out all across Iran, encroaching on this suburb where a tight-knit circle of girlfriends plan weddings, trade dirty jokes, and tries to hang onto a sense of normalcy. But as the revolution escalates, each woman is forced to join the wave of emigration or face an equally uncertain future at home. With breathtaking humanity and cutting wit, Wish You Were Here chronicles a decade of life during war, as best friends forever become friends long lost, scattered and searching for home.

Opening Night Credits

Production Credits

	Person/Company	Credit
	Playwrights Horizons	Producer

	Sanaz Toossi	Playwright
	Brandon Terzic	Original Music

	Gaye Taylor Upchurch	Director

	Arnulfo Maldonado	Set Designer
	Sarah Laux	Costume Designer
	Reza Behjat	Lighting Designer
	Brian Hickey	Sound Designer
	Sinan Refik Zafar	Sound Designer

	Vanessa Coakley	Production Stage Manager
	Lindsay Eberly	Assistant Stage Manager

	Alaine Alldaffer	Casting
	Karyn Casl	Casting

Cast

	Actor	Role
	Nikki Massoud	Zari
	Marjan Neshat	Nazanin
	Nazanin Nour	Rana
	Artemis Pebdani	Shideh
	Roxanna Hope Radja	Salme

Awards

		Award	Person / Company	Function
1	NOMINATED	2023 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Costume Design	Sarah Laux	Costume Designer
2	WON	2023 Artios Award, New York Theatre – Comedy or Drama	Karyn Casl	Casting
3	NOMINATED	2023 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play	Sanaz Toossi	Playwright
			Playwrights Horizons	Producer
4	NOMINATED	2023 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Costume Design for a Play	Sarah Laux	Costume Designer
5	NOMINATED	2022 Artios Award, New York Theatre – Comedy or Drama	Karyn Casl	Casting
6	WON	2022 Obie Award, Design	Reza Behjat	Lighting Designer
7	NOMINATED	2022 BroadwayWorld Off/Off-Off Broadway Awards, Best New Play (Off-Broadway)	Playwrights Horizons	Producer
8	NOMINATED	2022 BroadwayWorld Off/Off-Off Broadway Awards, Best Production Of A Play (Off-Broadway)	Playwrights Horizons	Producer