Vulnerable Storytelling with Adil Mansoor

Queer Theology Podcast · Jun 25, 2023 · 1m

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…