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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.
Sep 14, 2020 · 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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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.
Apr 29, 2013 · A play that tackles Islamophobia and questions of Muslim-American identity recently won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play is Disgraced, by first-time playwright Ayad Akhtar.
Oct 22, 2020 · Playwright, Ayad Akhtar, won the Pulitzer prize in 2013 for his candid and thought-provoking play “Disgraced” on the identity crisis among Muslims after the 9/11 terror attacks.
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Ayad Akhtar. Actor: The War Within. From Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Graduated from Brown University. Spent a year working with acting theorist and pioneer, Jerzy Grotowski (Towards a Poor Theater). Has taught acting on his own and alongside Andre Gregory in New York City & Vienna, Austria.
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May 11, 2013 · Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Ayad Akhtar talks about his personal conflict with his background, admiring Woody Allen and writing about the complexities of being a Pakistani-American and a...
