Ayad Akhtar

LCT: Junk (Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony Award nomination); Disgraced (also Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award nom), The Who & The What (LCT3). The Invisible Hand premiered at NYTW (Obie Award; Olivier and Evening Standard noms). As 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. Akhtar is the author of Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.), called “a masterpiece” (Publisher’s Weekly) and “a tour de force” (The Washington Post), selected by The New York Times as one of its ten best books of the year. His first novel, American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), was published in over 20 languages. Akhtar is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwriting 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. In 2021, Akhtar was named the New York State Author by the New York State Writers Institute.

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