Adil Mansoor is a theatre director centering the stories of queer folks and people of color. His performance \u201cAmm(i)gone\u201d adapts Sophocles\u2019s \u201cAntigone\u201d as an apology to and from his mother. \u201cAmm(i)gone\u201d is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creative and Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Kelly Strayhorn Theater, The Theater Offensive, and NPN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mansoor has developed work with New York Theatre Workshop, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, The Poetry Project, BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Tofte Lake Center, NYU Tisch, PearlArts, and others. Recent directing projects include \u201cDaddies\u201d by Paul Kruse (Audible), “Gloria” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Hatch Arts Collective), “Kentucky” by Lean Nanoko Winkler (Pittsburgh Playhouse), and \u201cOnce Removed\u201d by Paul Kruse (Tribeca Festival).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mansoor is a founding member of Pittsburgh\u2019s Hatch Arts Collective and the former Artistic Director of Dreams of Hope, an LGBTQA+ youth arts organization. He has been an NYTW 2050 Directing Fellow, a Gerri Kay New Voices Fellow with Quantum Theater, and an Art of Practice Fellow and Community Leader with Sundance. He was part of the inaugural Artist Caucus gathered by Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and Woolly Mammoth. Mansoor received his MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n