![]() ![]() She is hoping for her own show, he for eventual partnership. ![]() My immediate response on finishing was "Wow!" I can't imagine how powerful this would be to see on the stage.Īmir and Emily are living a very good American life-she is a white artist, he an Indian/Pakistani lawyer with a high-powered New York law firm. I read this play on the recommendation of a friend who has seen the play and then bought a copy and promptly loaned it to me to read. Additionally, Ayad is a Board Trustee at PEN/America and New York Theatre Workshop. Among other honors, Akhtar is the recipient the Steinberg Playwrighting Award, the Nestroy Award, the Erwin Piscator Award, as well as fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, MacDowell, the Sundance Institute, and Yaddo, where he serves as a Board Director. As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within. ![]() As a playwright, he has written Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony nomination) Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination) The Who & The What (Lincoln Center) and The Invisible Hand (NYTW Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations). He is the author of American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), published in over 20 languages and named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012. Ayad Akhtar is a playwright, novelist, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ![]()
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