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1. onthestage.com › blog › ayad-akhtar-the-powerhouseAyad Akhtar: The Powerhouse Playwright Redefining ...

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   From Lahore to Broadway, learn more about Ayad Akhtar and his journey as a Pulitzer-winning playwright.

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3. www.litcharts.com › lit › disgracedDisgraced Study Guide | Literature Guide | LitCharts

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   A concise biography of Ayad Akhtar plus historical and literary context for Disgraced.

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ayad_AkhtarAyad Akhtar - Wikipedia

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   Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He has received numerous accolades including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as nominations for two Tony Awards.

5. www.researchgate.net › publication › 291422034(PDF) Muslim Identity in 21st Century America: Ayad Akhtar's ...

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   Abstract. Recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Ayad Akhtar has been lauded as the de facto voice of the American Muslim in theatre and literature. Akhtar, A Pakistani American,...

6. www.gradesaver.com › author › ayad-akhtarAyad Akhtar Biography | List of Works, Study Guides & Essays

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   Ayad Akhtar. Ayad Akhtar is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Born in Staten Island, New York to Pakistani parents, Akhtar's work deals with themes of immigration, religion, and American-Muslim identity. In 2013, Akhtar received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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7. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2020/09/21An American Writer for an Age of Division - The New Yorker

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   Sep 14, 2020 · An American Writer for an Age of Division. The playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar has never been afraid of provoking audiences. His latest work explores the origins of Trump’s toxicity, the...

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   Who is Ayad Akhtar?

   • Ayad Akhtar, who is of Pakistani descent, was born in Staten Island, New York. He majored in theater and religion at Brown University before moving to Italy to work with Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski. Akhtar subsequently returned to the United States and completed an MFA in film directing at Columbia University.

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   What is Akhtar known for?

   • Akhtar is known as a playwright covering various themes including the American - Muslim experience, racism, religion, economics, immigration, and identity. For his work on Broadway, Akhtar received Tony Award for Best Play nominations for Disgraced (2015) and Junk (2017). He also authored the plays The Who & The What and The Invisible Hand.

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   What plays did Akhtar write?

   • Akhtar subsequently wrote several critically acclaimed plays: The Who & The What (premiered in 2014), The Invisible Hand (premiered in 2014), and Junk: The Golden Age of Debt (premiered on Broadway in 2017). Akhtar has received two Tony Award nominations, and he won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Steinberg Playwright Award in 2017.

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   Why did Akhtar write disgraced?

   • Akhtar was thinking of “Othello” when he wrote “Disgraced,” but the play also owes a debt to the American literature of racial passing, in which characters who have managed to escape their origins fear that some unwelcome revelation will cast them out of the white world they have given everything to enter.

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   Is Ayad Akhtar ambivalence?

   • Ayad Akhtar’s autofictional novel cunningly entwines outrage and ambivalence. Photograph by Cole Barash for The New Yorker A year after Donald Trump assumed office, Ayad Akhtar was at the American Academy in Rome, contemplating populism, the degradation of democracy, and ruinous civil strife.

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   Is Akhtar serious about his work?

   • Akhtar is serious about his work to a point that can delight collaborators, or drive them mad. He and Boras met when she was cast in an early reading of “Junk”; they decided not to work together again. “I get really nervous when I have a show going up,” he said.

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9. ayadakhtar.com › aboutAbout - Ayad Akhtar

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   Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.