Playwright Ayad Akhtar: Our Tribal Identities
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
English - August 29, 2021 06:30 - 29 minutes - 29.5 MBBooks Arts History fiction historians idaho authors bestsellers books history idahopublictelevision marciafranklin nonfiction Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar talks with Marcia Franklin about his trajectory from Milwaukee to Broadway, and the often controversial themes of his works. Akhtar won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for his play "Disgraced."
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Originally Aired: 9/8/2017
The interview is part of Dialogue’s series “Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference” and was taped at the 2017 conference. Since 1995, the conference has been bringing together some of the world’s most well-known and illuminating authors to discuss literature and life.