Mona Mansour

American playwright

Mona Mansour is an American playwright of Middle Eastern descent. She has been a member of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group and a Playwrights' Center Core Writer. She is currently a resident playwright at New Dramatists.[1] Mansour often writes about the Middle East, and she has frequently collaborated with English director Mark Wing-Davey.[2] In addition to her theater work, Mansour has written for the television shows Queens Supreme and Dead Like Me.[3]

Produced works

  • Urge for Going - Public Theater (New York, 2011) (Public LAB production)
  • The Hour of Feeling - Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville (2012)
  • The Way West - Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago, 2014); Marin Theatre Company (San Francisco, 2015); LAByrinth Theater Company (New York, 2016)

Awards and honors

  • 2012 Whiting Award
  • 2013 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize for The Way West
  • 2014 Middle East America Playwright Award

Notes

  1. ^ "Mona Mansour". New Dramatists.
  2. ^ Adam Szymkowicz (26 April 2011). "Adam Szymkowicz". aszym.blogspot.com.
  3. ^ "Mona Mansour". juniortheatre.com.

External links

  • Author Website
  • Profile at The Whiting Foundation