Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970 in New York City ) is an American writer and playwright and stage actor.
Life
Ayad Akhtar grew up as the son of Pakistani immigrants in Milwaukee . He studied theater at Brown University .
In the financial drama Too Big to Fail , Akhtar played TARP government official Neel Kashkari .
His first novel, American Dervish , was published in 2012. The conversational piece Disgraced from 2012 won an Obie Award for playwriting and the Pulitzer Theater Prize in 2013 ; it ran among others in the Lyceum Theater on Broadway . In 2015 it was nominated for the best play at the Tony Award and in 2016 it was voted “Foreign Play of the Year 2016” in the critics' survey conducted by the trade journal Theater heute .
As part of the 2017 Nestroy Theater Prize , he was awarded in the Best Play category - Author's Prize for Outlaw at the Graz Schauspielhaus and the Burgtheater in Vienna .
Works (selection)
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American Dervish . Novel. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012 ISBN 978-0-316-18331-4
- Seeker of Heaven: Roman . Translation by Karl-Heinz Ebnet. Munich: Carl's Books, 2012 ISBN 978-3-570-58516-0 and btb ISBN 978-3-442-74751-1
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Disgraced . Drama. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013 ISBN 978-0-316-32446-5
- Outlaw . Translation Barbara Christ. Berlin: Theaterverlag Friedrich, 2016
- The Who & The What . Drama. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-32449-6
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The Invisible Hand . Drama. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015 ISBN 978-0-316-32453-3
- The invisible hand . German-language premiere at the Schauspielhaus Bochum 2016.
- Junk: The Golden Age of Debt . Drama. Back Bay Books, 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Ayad Akhtar in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Ayad Akhtar in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Ayad Akhtar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ayad Akhtar , website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obie Winners , playbill.com, accessed February 1, 2019
- ^ Disgraced, by Ayad Akhtar , The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama
- ^ Dorothea Marcus: Moralische Wechselbäder , theater criticism, on Deutschlandfunk , December 5, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Akhtar, Ayad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American novelist, playwright, and stage actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |