We’re pretty passionate about storytelling over here so it was a real pleasure to sit down with Adil Mansoor and chat with him about art, theater, and storytelling! 

Adil is a theater director centering the stories of queer folks and people of color. His performance “Amm(i)gone” adapts Sophocles’s “Antigone” as an apology to and from his mother. Mansoor is a founding member of Pittsburgh’s Hatch Arts Collective and the former Artistic Director of Dreams of Hope, an LGBTQA+ youth arts organization.

We talk with Adil about the intersection of his queerness and Islam. He explains how his performance is both vulnerable and therapeutic. We discuss the power of art and how it can be a way to process the world around us. Adil is joyful and thoughtful in his approach to storytelling and we agree with him that the more vulnerable, authentic, and specific we are in telling our stories, the more powerful and impactful they are across a larger audience.

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