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Wajahat Ali (playwright) is a American of Pakistani descent.
The Domestic Crusaders is his first full-length play. Born and raised in
the city of Fremont, in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Silicon Valley, he
has been writing, producing, and directing plays, films, and comedy
sketches
since he was a child, enlisting his friends to serve as actors and
crew. In the fall of 2001, during his undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley,
he began writing The Domestic Crusaders in order to fill a twenty page
short-story requirement due for a writing class taught by Ishmael
Reed. With Reed’s encouragement, he transformed the piece into a play.
It premiered in 2005, at the Thrust Stage of the Berkeley Repertory
Theatre. In 2009, The Domestic Crusaders premiered off-Broadway in
New York at the Nuyorican Poets Café; by the end of its five-week run,
it had broken the café’s box-office records.
Ali’s essays and interviews on politics, the media, popular culture,
and religion have appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, Salon,