Mona Mansour
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
[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)
- 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
[edit]- 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]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Mona Mansour". New Dramatists.
- ^ Adam Szymkowicz (26 April 2011). "Adam Szymkowicz". aszym.blogspot.com.
- ^ "Mona Mansour". juniortheatre.com.
- ^ "Mona Mansour | Producer, Writer, Actress". IMDb. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
- ^ Wren, Celia; Marks, Peter; Brodeur, Michael Andor; Smee, Sebastian (2023-04-05). "Review | Mosaic's powerful 'Unseen' explores cost of looking away from suffering". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
- ^ Goldberg, Rachael F. "Review: UNSEEN at Mosaic Theater Company". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
- ^ Shaw, Helen (2022-06-22). "Stroller-Size Theater: Josh Azouz's Buggy Baby". Vulture. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
- ^ Solomon, Alisa (2022-06-23). "A Staggering Story of Palestinian Exile". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
- ^ Collins-Hughes, Laura (2022-05-11). "'The Vagrant Trilogy' Review: Palestinians in Exile, Yearning for Home". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
- ^ "Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Donja R. Love, Diana Oh, and More Are 2020 Helen Merrill Award Winners". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2022-11-12. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
- ^ Editors, American Theatre (2020-09-23). "Mona Mansour Wins 2020 Kesselring Prize". AMERICAN THEATRE. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "All Awards". American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
- ^ "Martyna Majok, Mona Mansour Win 2023 Steinberg Playwright Awards". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2025-03-23. Retrieved 2025-05-16.