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An Ordinary Muslim
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By Hammaad Chaudry
Directed by Jo Bonney
2017/18 Season
February 7, 2018—March 25, 2018
AN ORDINARY MUSLIM ran approximately 2 hours and 25 minutes including one intermission.
VIDEOS
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Saima Khan
Purva is an actress of film, television and stage and also a deviser of new work. Theatre: Uncommon Sense (Tectonic Theatre Project), Idiot (HERE), Veil’d (Women’s Project), There or Here (Hypothetical Theater), Parts & Parts of Stitches (MTWorks), The Rise of Dorothy Hale (St. Luke’s), East is East (Manhattan Theater Club & New Group). As an Associate Artist with Target Margin Theatre: Reread Another, The Tempest, Second Language, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, Old Comedy, These Very Serious Jokes, The 5 Hysterical Girls Theorem, The Seagull, Sonoma. Film: Sully, Equity, Kumare, Cosmopolitan, Green Card Fever, American Desi. TV: “Madam Secretary,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Nurse Jackie,” “The Good Wife,” “Unforgettable.” Purva hosted “Natural Reboot” for ZeeLiving and co-created the upcoming web series “Shrinkage.” Other upcoming theatre in 2018 includes Dance Nation at Playwrights Horizons and Assembled Identity at HERE Arts Center. Purva is a founding member of Disha Theatre and a member of The Actor’s Center Workshop Company. She studied at Williams College, The British American Drama Academy and the Public Theatre Shakespeare Lab.
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Akeel Bhatti
Ranjit Chowdhry is an actor/writer from India… through Canada and the USA… a work in transit one might say. On stage Ranjit has performed The Mesmerist with Steppenwolf and Rafta, Rafta with The New Group. Film credits include The Last Holiday, Mississippi Malasa, Girl Six, Such a Long Journey, Fire, The Perez Family, and Bollywood/Hollywood. Television: a recurring role on “Cosby,” “Prison Break,” and “The Office.” In India, Ranjit has performed in a dozen or so Bollywood films and later formed his own theater group Stages. As a writer Ranjit has adapted R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi Days for international TV. He also wrote and starred in Deepa Mehta’s Sam and Me, runner up for the Caméra F’Or at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
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Javeria Bhatti-Mirza
Recent theater: Peer Gynt and the Norwegian Hapa Band (Ma-Yi Theater), Scenes From Court Life, or, the whipping boy and his prince by Sarah Ruhl (Yale Rep, world premiere). Broadway: Company (2006, Tony Award, Best Revival of a Musical). Off-Broadway includes: CSC, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public/NYSF, Women’s Project, Ma-Yi, MCC, others. Regional includes: George St. Playhouse, Berkshire Theater Festival, Old Globe, McCarter Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Yale Repertory, Long Wharf, Arena Stage, Playmakers Repertory. Recent TV: “Chicago Med,” “Minority Report,” “Madam Secretary,” “Major Crimes,” “Forever,” “Elementary,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Being Mary Jane,” “Damages.” Video games: “Gears of War 4” (President Jinn, voice). Film: The Clique, The War Within, Heights, Black Knight, and Robot Stories. Recipient: 2017 NYU Diversity Faculty Mentorship, 2014 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. 52nd Street Project volunteer. MFA in Acting from NYU.
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Azeem Bhatti
Sanjit was last seen Off-Broadway in the role of “Aeneas” in Troilus and Cressida for Shakespeare in the Park and in the role of “Jeff Schrader” in the Public Theater’s Dry Powder, opposite Claire Danes, John Krasinski, and Hank Azaria, directed by Tommy Kail. The role earned him Lucille Lortel and Outer Critic’s Circle Award nominations for “Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play”. Other credits include: Broadway: War Horse (Tony Award, Best Play). Off-Broadway: Macbeth, Measure for Measure (NYSF/Public Theater); Awake and Sing! (NAATCO); The Ragged Claws (Cherry Lane); The Little Foxes (NYTW). Regionally: The Cherry Orchard, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Indian Ink. Film/TV: After Party, The Girl is in Trouble, The Company Men, August, Arranged, “Blindspot,” “Time After Time,” “Madam Secretary,” “Blacklist,” “Elementary,” “High Maintenance,” “Homeland,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Good Wife.” M.F.A. NYU Graduate Acting.
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David Adkins
Broadway: Lucky Guy (w/Tom Hanks), The Father (w/Frank Langella), An Enemy of the People (MTC). Off-Broadway: Tamburlaine the Great (TFANA), As You Like It (NYSF), Golden Age (MTC). World Premieres: You’re Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine written and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, a cautionary tale by christopher oscar pena, K.M.T. adapted by Keith Reddin. TV: “Shades of Blue,” “Blue Bloods,” “TURN: Washington’s Spies,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” “Unforgettable,” “The Good Wife,” “ER.” Film: Stranger in the Dunes (Official Selection 2017 Raindance Film Festival), Upcoming – The Magnificent Meyersons. Training: M.F.A. NYU Graduate Acting, B.F.A. UMN/Guthrie Theater.
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Imran Jameel
Broadway: A Meeting by the River. Regional: Homebody/Kabul at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom at The Culture Project in NYC, Studio Theatre in Washington DC, Brava Theatre in San Francisco and a Special Reading at the Sam Rayburn Annex in the US House of Representatives; BAM, La Mama, Vineyard Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, George Street Playhouse and NY Stage & Film. Films: Hidalgo (Yusuf), Gandhi (Godse, the Assassin), The Peacemaker (Dr. Taraki), Night & The City, Traffic, Men in Black, and Making Mr. Right. TV: “Vestige of Honor” (MOW), “Littlest Victims” (MOW), “Dark Angel,” “Boston Legal,” “Tattingers” and “Tales From The Dark Side.” MFA, Graduate Acting, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
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Hamza Jameel
Off-Broadway: The Winter’s Tale (The Public Theater – Mobile Unit), Hamlet (Sheen Center), Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73), Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr), This Is It How It Ends (59E59 Summer Shorts), Mechanics of Love (ToByFor Productions). Regional: Our Town (Portland Center Stage); Hapgood (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Philadelphia Story, As You Like It (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Film: Bikini Moon, Dastaar (SXSW, IndyFest), Tourists (Nantucket, CAAM, NJFF), Open Roads (Nantucket). Television: “Blindspot,” “The Blacklist” (NBC); “Madam Secretary” (CBS); and “Younger” (TV Land). Sathya was the 2013 Princess Grace Award Winner (Grace Le Vine Award) and is a proud volunteer at the 52nd Street Project. He is a native of St. Louis, MO. MFA: NYU.
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Malika Bhatti
NYTW: Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner (World Premiere) also at Mark Taper Forum and BAM. Selected NYC Theatre: The American Pilot (MTC Drama Desk nomination: featured actress),Stuff Happens (The Public US Premiere), O, Jerusalem (The Flea). Selected Regional: The House of Bernarda Alba (Mark Taper Forum). Selected UK Theatre: Borderline (Royal Court and Joint Stock Theatre Co.). Film/TV:
My Beautiful Laundrette (Dir. Stephen Frears), Girl Six (Dir. Spike Lee), “Law and Order,” “The Good Wife.” Co-Founder Kali Theatre Co. London. Training: Royal Court Youth Theatre, London.
NEWS
Playwright Hammaad Chaudry is a 2017-18 Tow Foundation Playwright in Residence! This grant includes a full-time salary for Hammaad, funds to support his integration in our day-to-day operations, and support of his production of AN ORDINARY MUSLIM.
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