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.

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.

Sep 14, 2020 · Ayad Akhtar’s autofictional novel cunningly entwines outrage and ambivalence. Photograph by Cole Barash for The New Yorker. A year after Donald Trump assumed office, Ayad Akhtar was at the...

Feb 5, 2025 · The iconic British playwright, Akhtar reminded the audience, was a prolific plagiarizer, yet masterful in presenting well-known works and archetypes in a fresh, insightful way. Akhtar reads Shakespeare’s writings daily and believes that the chances of AI generating verse on the same level of the bard remain infinitesimally low.

Sep 14, 2020 · Ayad Akhtar won a Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, his play about a conflicted American Muslim man living in New York after Sept. 11. If you find yourself a...

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With his play Junk up and running at the Rep, Pulitzer Prize winner AYAD AKHTAR reflects on his Milwaukee roots. Late afternoon sunlight slants through the windows of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Wells Street offices, lighting up the long table that dominates its conference room.

“Akhtar has written a modern-day morality tale that scrupulously questions the possibility of moral choice in a world where money, the new might, now makes right.” — Los Angeles Times “…as close to reality as theater gets….riveting.” — The New York Times. It’s 1985.

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright, and has served as PEN America’s president since 2021. 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.

Feb 22, 2018 · “Junk” — the sprawling, weighty drama by Ayad Akhtar exploring the underhanded world of junk bonds and Wall Street in the 1980s — is this year’s winner of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama...