Playwright, actor, novelist, and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar ’93 won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama yesterday for his first play, Disgraced, which the judges described as "a moving play that depicts a successful corporate lawyer painfully forced to consider why he has for so long camouflaged his Pakistani Muslim heritage."

A recent article in The New York Times entitled "Writes Well With Others" profiles Brown/Trinity MFA graduate, Jackie Sibblies Drury. Her play commissioned by Trinity Repertory Company, Social Creatures, is currently at Trinity Rep.

From Broadway World, April 10, 2013: Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) has just announced the full cast for the world premiere of The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin by Steven Levenson, directed by Scott Ellis. Steven Levenson was a Brown undergraduate playwright.

Emily O'Dell's latest piece, "Refugee Yoga in Beirut," was just posted on NPR's program "On Being" with Krista Tippet. She addressed yoga in Beirut in her New York Times Op-Ed as well.