by Ayad Akhtar
directed by Kim Tobin-Lehl

September 7 - September 30, 2017

Disgraced

Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Disgraced tells the tale of Amir Kapoor, a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly moving up the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his cultural roots. Emily, his wife, is white; she's an artist, and her work is influenced by Islamic imagery. When the couple hosts a dinner party, what starts out to be a friendly conversation escalates into the stuff of great drama.

  • Gopal Divan as Amir

    Christy Watkins as Emily

    Ash Slaughter as Abe

    Michelle Elaine as Jory

    Philip Lehl as Isaac

  • Stage Manager | Michelle Ritter

    Set Design | Kevin Rigdon

    Lighting Design | Kevin Rigdon

    Costume Design | Leah Smith

    Sound Design | Mike Mullins

    Properties Master | Sarah Powell

    Fight Choreographer | Josh Morrison

    Master Electrician | Thomas Murphy

    Carpenter | Dave Dusheck

    Set Painter | Abi Harris

    Crew | Kurt Bilanoski

    Portrait of “Amir” | Michael Golden

  • 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.

    Akhtar is the author of Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.), which The Washington Post called “a tour de force” and The New York Times called “a beautiful novel…that had echoes of The Great Gatsby and that circles, with pointed intellect, the possibilities and limitations of American life.” His first novel, American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), was published in over 20 languages. As a playwright, he has written Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony nomination); Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination); The Who & The What (Lincoln Center); and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations).

    Among other honors, Akhtar is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwrighting 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. Additionally, Ayad is a Board Trustee at New York Theatre Workshop, and PEN America, where he serves as President. In 2021, Akhtar was named the New York State Author, succeeding Colson Whitehead, by the New York State Writers Institute.

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