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
- Houston Chronicle Review: Hate-fueled ‘Disgraced’ seems fitting for 2017
- Houstonia Review: Disgraced Interrogates the Complex Question of How to Be ‘American’
- Houston Press: Disgraced Powerfully Tests Our Tolerance in a Thrilling Production
- Arts & Culture Texas: Dinner of Doom: 4th Wall Opens Its Final Season with Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced
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.