Over the past decade, Marjan Neshat has become a welcome presence on the Off Broadway scene, and it’s rewarding to see her finally make her Broadway debut. And she’s in a mighty fine play, too: “English,” which Peter and Elisabeth loved when they saw it at the Atlantic Theater in 2022.

Sanaz Toossi’s play, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in drama, is about a small group of Iranians of various ages who are learning English near Tehran. Neshat plays their teacher, who repeatedly brings up her time living in Britain. We had a wonderful time chatting with her about her Iranian roots, her working relationship with Toussi (they also did “Wish You Were Here” together), a production of “The Seagull” starring Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming that turned out to be important for her as an actress, and what it was like being in the Public Theater’s infamous production of “Julius Caesar” at the Delacorte that sparked controversy and protests in 2017.

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