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Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an Pakistani American actor and writer. He is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. ==Early life and career== Akhtar was born in Staten Island, New York City and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After spending most of his childhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he attended Brown University where he majored in theater. After graduation he moved to Italy and studied acting with Jerzy Grotowski for a year.〔 Akhtar then returned to the United States to teach acting classes with Andre Gregory and earn his Master of Arts in directing from Columbia University School of the Arts. While at Columbia he and classmates Tom Glynn and Joseph Castelo formed the idea for ''The War Within'', a film about an ordinary man radicalized into becoming a terrorist. Akhtar also starred in the film playing Hassan, the would-be terrorist. In 2011 he played Neel Kashkari in the HBO film ''Too Big to Fail''. Akhtar has written for the stage. His playwriting credits include ''Disgraced'', which premiered at The American Theater Company in January 2012 and which was staged at LCT3/Lincoln Center in New York in October 2012, and won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.〔 The play's New York cast included Aasif Mandvi, Heidi Armbruster, Erik Jensen and Karen Pittman. ''Disgraced'' was revived on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, beginning on September 27, 2014. The cast included Hari Dhillon, Gretchen Mol, Josh Radnor, and Karen Pittman.〔()〕 His play, ''The Invisible Hand'', opened Off-Broadway at the New York Theater Workshop on December 7, 2014.〔Isherwood, Charles. ("Theater Review. A Hostage Bets on the Market for Survival" ) ''The New York Times'', December 8, 2014〕 Directed by Ken Russ Schmoll, the cast features Justin Kirk, Jameal Ali, Usman Ally and Dariush Kashani.〔Staff. ("Casting Announced for Pulitzer Prize Winner Ayad Akhtar's 'The Invisible Hand' at NYTW" ) playbill.com, October 30, 2014〕 The play had its world premiere at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis in March 2012〔Hetrick, Adam. (Ayad Akhtar's 'The Invisible Hand' Will Premiere in St. Louis" ) playbill.com, February 27, 2012〕 and then was produced at ACT Theatre, Seattle in September 2014.〔Berson, Misha. (" 'The Invisible Hand': A taut thriller, starring terrorism and high finance" ) ''Seattle Times'', September 12, 2014〕 In association with ACT Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland presented the play in March 2015.〔(Homepage Artists Repertory Theatre )〕 The play won the 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award, John Gassner Award.〔Clement, Olivia. (" 'Curious Incident' Top Winner at Outer Critics Circle Awards" ) playbill.com, May 11, 2015〕 It will be performed at the Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, California in June 2016.〔http://www.marintheatre.org/productions/2015-16-season〕 His first novel, ''American Dervish'', was published by Little Brown Publishing in January 2012 to positive reviews from critics. He is working on his second novel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ayad Akhtar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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