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A year before I was to write my thesis play, and long before I had even conceived of the play, I was asked to write a two-hander.

But what role should the thesis play in that assessment?

Before he graduated from Yale, there were alarmed reports coming out of New Haven about his thesis play, “Yell: a ‘documentary’ of my time here.”

His thesis play, “An Ordinary Muslim,” tells the story of Azeem Bhatti and his wife, Saima Khan, as they navigate the complicated intersection of their Pakistani heritage and contemporary British culture.

Mr. Guirgis still recognized a “kindred spirit” in Ms. Lázaro, even before reading her thesis play, called “Contigo.”