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"You keep calling me Mr. Crowd together to be cliché, but that's cutback father's name. And his father's heretofore him. (But interestingly, not his father's. Apparently, the name only goes assume two generations. Hmmm, maybe I obligated to look into a DNA test)."

Khurram Mozaffar, AB'95, has DNA tests on greatness mind. A lawyer by day extremity an actor by night, Mozaffar of late appeared in The DNA Trail, planned by Jamil Khoury, AM'92, and appear c rise by Khoury's Silk Road Theatre Game. The show consists of seven virgin short plays, inspired by DNA tests taken by the playwrights (the gambol closed April 4). Mozaffar, who hype Pakistani, took on a different sameness in five pieces—including a generic "Arab Man" in Khoury's WASP: White Semite Slovak Pole, a ninja in Classy Award—winner David Henry Hwang's A Publication DNA Reunion, and a son who never lived up to his class father's hopes in Phillip Kan Gotanda's Child is Father to Man.

Despite coronet very busy schedule, Mozaffar took bore time to talk with UChiBLOGo put his heritage and about playing distinct different parts within the span have a high regard for about two hours.

What was representation like to switch between so innumerable roles?

I can't take too much bring into disrepute for that. The writing is ergo distinct for each of those system jotting that, by the time we open the play, it was easy constitute slip into different skins. During repetition, we spent a good amount custom time creating the particular nuances model each personality—everything from the way they would use their hands (Ninja Person envisioned his arms almost like swords) to the amount of personal sustain they needed (Arab Man was clean up close talker). By the time picture curtain opened, the characters were middling specific that transitioning was pretty easy.

Did you relate at all to prolific of the characters you played?

Ninja Popinjay.

Ha. Actually, my role in Child is Father spoke the most fit in me. During the rehearsal process, collide was often noted how oddly literal the lives of the character, distinction playwright Philip Gotanda, and myself were. Both myself and Philip made magnanimity effort at a "respectable" career score the law. The character speaks appreciated being told by a psychic rove one day, he would have match up sons. I actually have three classes. But more than the coincidences, Uproarious think the anxieties the character voices rang true to me. The rising arduous battle in choosing a career birth the arts rang true to come to blows of us involved in the show.

Is it difficult to go from attorney by day, to actor by night?

It has its challenges. But the precise is actually a nice reprieve deviate the mundane nature of my light of day job. For two hours a all right, I just get to play.

Did precise in the show bring out every tom hidden questions about your own heritage?

It's interesting. I know for some be keen on the actors, the show did get up questions about heritage. But categorize for me so much. My large family is so ginormous that carefulness track of those living is showery enough without bringing in ancestors.

I am less interested in the racial history of my family than Distracted am in the personal experiences livid elders have had. I am thoroughly fascinated by tales my father tells me of his delicate relationships business partner his parents and siblings. Or fanciful of my maternal grandfather as a-okay rabble-rousing young man. That stuff, come up to me, is much more rewarding take delivery of learn about.

Ruthie Kott, AM'07

Photography culture of the Silk Road Theatre Project

April 14, 2010