If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.
Ayad AkhtarI don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.
Ayad AkhtarI started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
Ayad Akhtar