A Conversation with Ayad Akhtar, moderated by P. Carl—ArtsEmerson—Fri, March 14, 2014
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2014-08-18

The Office of the Arts (which includes ArtsEmerson and HowlRound) at Emerson College in Boston presents a livestreaming conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and acclaimed author Ayad Akthar on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv this Friday, March 14 at 4pm PDT / 6pm CDT / 7pm EDT / 23:00 GMT.

The conversation will be moderated by P. Carl, Director of HowlRound: A knowledge commons by and for the theatre community.

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Ayad Akhtar was born in New York City and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the author of American Dervish, published in 25 languages worldwide and a 2012 Best Book of the Year at Kirkus Reviews, Toronto's Globe and Mail, Shelf-Awareness, and O (Oprah) Magazine. He is also a playwright and screenwriter. His stage play Disgraced played at New York's Lincoln Center Theater in 2012, and will be premiering at the Bush Theater in London in May 2013. Disgraced won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within. He has received commissions from Lincoln Center and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of Brown and Columbia Universities with degrees in Theatre and Film Directing.

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