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 edit
- 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 edit
- 2012 Whiting Award
- 2013 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize for The Way West
- 2014 Middle East America Playwright Award
Notes edit
- ^ "Mona Mansour". New Dramatists.
- ^ Adam Szymkowicz (26 April 2011). "Adam Szymkowicz". aszym.blogspot.com.
- ^ "Mona Mansour". juniortheatre.com.