Mona Mansour
American playwright
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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 was 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, Dead Like Me,[3] and New Amsterdam.[4]
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)
- Unseen ( Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2022; Mosaic Theater, 2023[5][6])
- Beginning Days of True Jubilation (with SOCIETY Theater, 2022)[7]
- The Vagrant Trilogy (Public Theater, 2022)[8][9]
Awards and honors
- 2012 Whiting Award
- 2013 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize for The Way West
- 2014 Middle East America Playwright Award
- 2020 Helen Merrill Award [10]
- 2020 Kesselring Award[11]
- 2023 Arts and Letters Award in Literature [12]
- 2023 Steinberg Award[13]