Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an American actor and writer. He is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Read full biography of Ayad Akhtar →
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an... →
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and... →
I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.
Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent... →
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing... →
I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that... →
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was... →
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important... →
I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in... →
I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity... →
Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an American actor and writer. He is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.