Ayad Akhtar: Ayad Akhtar. Actor: The War Within. From Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Graduated from Brown University. Spent a year working with acting theorist and pioneer, Jerzy Grotowski (Towards a Poor Theater). Has taught acting on his own and alongside Andre Gregory in New York City & Vienna, Austria. Alumnus of the Graduate Film Program at Columbia University, with a degree in directing. Winner of a New York Documentary Center's Young Documentary Filmmakers' Award, an IFP Audience...
Known For: The War Within (Hassan), Homeland Elegies (Writer), Life Document 2: Identity (Ahmad), Doomsday Machine (Writer)