Cynthia Nixon to Star in Broadway Play Written by Inman Teacher

While most Atlanta Public Schools teachers and administrators are dealing with the backlash of the district-wide cheating scandal that has recieved national attention, teacher Margaret Edson is celebrating an accomplishment of a lifetime.

A play script written by Edson was adapted into a Broadway play, according to a report on Broadway.com, and will star actress Cynthia Nixon, who is best known for her role as Miranda in the HBO series "Sex and the City".

Edson, a Pulitzer-Prize and Emmy winning playwright whose script was turned turned into a movie, teaches sixth grade at Inman Middle School.

The play, “Wit,” will premiere early next year.

More from the Broadway.com report:

Wit centers on a brilliant and exacting poetry professor (Nixon) as she undergoes experimental treatment for cancer. A scholar who devoted her life to academia, she must now face the irony and injustice of becoming the subject of research. The role was created by Kathleen Chalfant, who won acclaim for her performance in MCC Theater’s 1998 off-Broadway premiere production, directed by the late Derek Anson Jones. Emma Thompson played the role in an Emmy-winning 2001 HBO film version. Edson, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, is a public school teacher in Atlanta who never wrote a second play.

Nixon won a Best Actress Tony Award for MTC’s production of Rabbit Hole and is the winner of Emmys for Sex and the City (as Miranda Hobbes) and as a guest star on Law & Order: SVU. Her New York stage credits include Distracted, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Women and dual roles as a teen actress in the Broadway premieres of Hurlyburly and The Real Thing. She is currently featured on Showtime’s The Big C.