Press/Awards
Awards:
2023 Drama Desk Winner for Best Ensemble (Public Obscenities)
2023 Drama League Nominee for Best Play (Public Obscenities)
“Haque…navigates these burdensome complexities with touching humanity and intelligence…uniformly excellent cast and the deliberate pacing of a confident playwright.”
-Juan Ramirez, The New York Times (Critic’s Pick)
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“Haque accomplishes a particularly striking physical transformation…In early scenes, (Haque) is forever cringing from insecurity and nerves…toward the end…(Haque) has undergone a change…(his character) stands straight and proud, and Haque, a beautiful, muscular fellow, is an image to behold.”
-David Cote, 4ColumnsMag
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“…spectacular cast…each virtuoso is gorgeously at ease…Were these stars hiding in plain sight all along? Perhaps we should have looked more closely.”
-Helen Shaw, The New Yorker (Best Theater, 2023)
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“Some of the best aspects of ‘Public Obscenities’ have to do with the interactions of (Haque) and (Powell)…The unspoken acts of acceptance and forgiveness between them give the play admirable heft.”
-Peter Marks, Washington Post
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“Haque, nervily charismatic, is wholly believable as this neurotic, self-doubting but also rather entitled man.”
-Kate Wingfield, Metroweekly