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Theater maker, director, and performer Adil Mansoor explores family tension, queerness, and faith in Amm(i)gone, now playing at Theater Mu. The one-person play is an interpretation of Sophocles's ...

Adil Mansoor was just 3 months old when he emigrated from Pakistan, with his mother and two siblings, some 36 years ago. They lived in the suburbs of Chicago, and Mansoor describes he and his mother ...

The ancient classic “Antigone” is rich with moral quandary, as the titular character nobly faces the prospect of death to do what she believes is right: honoring her brother with a proper burial. But ...

The photo is of Adil Mansoor when he was a child, in Pakistan. The scene was a family celebration, and a relative, on a lark, dressed the boy in a fine women’s gown. The adult Mansoor regards the ...

"Breath of Truth" is a 2020 quilt by Tina Williams Brewer. Fiber artist Tina Williams Brewer and theater artist Adil Mansoor are this year’s winners of the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement awards ...

Tasked with translating Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone into Urdu, Adil Mansoor decided to approach the assignment as an opportunity to forge a deeper connection with his mother, a hijabi Muslim and ...

Adil Mansoor is a Virgo Pakistani-American theater queerdo. His mother is an Aquarian hijabi Quranic scholar. Since she discovered Adil’s queerness online, their once-close bond now needs rescue. In ...

Creator and performer Adil Mansoor invites his Pakistani mother to translate Antigone into Urdu as means of exploring the tensions between family and faith. Should he keep his queerness buried from ...