Ep. 37 Representation, Basketball, and Books with Behzad Dabu

Today on The Stacks, our guest is actor, producer, and activist Behzad Dabu. Behzad is most well known for his roles on How to Get Away with Murder and The Chi. We talk about plays that are great on the page, representation on screen, and his love of basketball books.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

BOOKS

• Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
• Federico Garcia Lorca
• Blood and Gifts by J.T. Rogers
• The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
• Rajiv Joseph
• Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph
• Guards at the Taj by Rajiv Joseph
• American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
• The Who and the What by Ayad Akhtar
• Junk by Ayad Akhtar
• The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar
• The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare

• Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
• The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• Richard III by William Shakespeare
• August Osage County by Tracy Letts
• Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecth 
• All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• On The Road by Jack Kerouac
• Court Vision by Ira Berkow
• The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
• Showboat by Roland Lazenby 
• Just Kids by Patti Smith
• If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar 
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Basketball: A Love Story by Jackie MacMullan
• Basketball (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano
• The Rap Yearbook by Shea Serrano
• Game of Thrones Series by George R. R. Martin
• Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson
• When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
• Contested Will by James Shapiro
• The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
• Lies My Teacher Taught Me by James W. Loewen
• The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
• The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
• Americanah by  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Between the World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Heavy by Kiese Laymon
• Foul Lines by Jack McCallum
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Tips by Jon Jory 
• Tips II by Jon Jory
• True and False by David Mamet
• Letters to a Young Artist by Anna Deavere Smith
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Bible (The New American Standard)
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• King Lear by William Shakespeare
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Open City by Teju Cole

EVERYTHING ELSE

• The Chicago Inclusion Project 
• Emjoy Gavino
• Black Lives Matter
• Reform LA Jails 
• White People 4 Black Lives
• How to Get Away with Murder (ABC)
• The Chi (Showtime)
• Shonda Rhimes
• Lena Waithe
• Viola Davis
• Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
• IMDB
• Training Day (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• “Chun Li” by Nicki Minaj
• Eminem
• House of Cards (Netflix)
• August Osage County (The Weinstein Company)
• Johnnie Cochran
• Sharon Stone
• Woody Allen
• Center Theatre Group
• Zoroastrian
• Freddie Mercury
• Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)
• Queen
• Ep. 2 The Stacks Book Club — Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• Game of Thrones (HBO)
• The Goodman Theatre
• “The Case for Reparations” (Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic)
• Ep. The Stacks Book Club — Between the World and Me by Ta-Nahesi Coates
• Citizen Kane (RKO Radio Pictures)

• Casablanca (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• The Godfather (Paramount Pictures)
• Jaws (Universal Pictures)
• E.T., The Extra Terrestrial (Universal Pictures)
• Star Wars (20th Century Fox)
• Titanic (Paramount Pictures)
• Schindler’s List (Universal Pictures)
• Gone with the Wind (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
• A League of Their Own (Columbia Pictures)
• Jerry Maguire (TriStar Pictures)
• Rudy (TriStar Pictures)
• He Got Game (Buena Vista Pictures) 
• By The Book (New York Times)

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