Disgraced is a play by American writer and actor Ayad Akhtar, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 and premiered in Chicago in 2012. Since 2016, the play has also been performed on German-speaking stages and is known as "Geächtet." "Geächtet" was voted "Foreign Play of the Year 2016" in the critics' poll of the theater magazine Theater heute. In his drama, Ayad Akhtar discusses pressing issues of American society, such as the Patriot Act, integration, everyday racism, and terrorism, through the lens of enlightened careerists navigating the seemingly politically correct waters. About the drama: The central part of the play revolves around a dinner on the Upper East Side, where representatives of the major New York minorities are gathered around a dinner table.