Mona Mansour

Playwright

Mona Mansour

Mansour makes her MTC debut with The Way West, which received the company’s 2013 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize. The Way West had its world premiere in 2014 at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago and received a BareBones workshop at New York City’s Lark Play Development Center, where Mansour was a Fellow in 2012. The Hour of Feeling received its world premiere in the 2012 Humana Festival in Louisville and was part of the High Tide Festival’s Rifle Hall plays in the UK. Urge for Going received a Public Lab production during the Public Theater’s 2011 season, and had its West Coast premiere with Golden Thread Productions in San Francisco. The Vagrant, the third play in the trilogy, was commissioned by the Public Theater and workshopped at the 2013 Sundance Theater Institute. Mansour was a member of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and a Core Writer at Minneapolis’ Playwrights’ Center. Her other plays include Across the Water, Girl Scouts of America and Broadcast Yourself (part of Headlong Theater’s Decade). With Tala Manassah, she has written The House for Noor Theatre in New York, After, which premiered at York College Little Theatre in New York, The Letter at Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festival, The Wife, which they wrote in residence at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, and Dressing, which is part of “Facing Our Truths: Short Plays about Trayvon, Race and Privilege,” a collection commissioned by the New Black Festival and that has been presented at various theaters around the US, including the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Center Theater Group in Los Angeles and Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in New York. They recently were given an Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan commission to write a play about 1970s Iraq. Mansour’s other commissions include a play for South Coast Rep’s inaugural Crossroads program. She has written for television’s Dead Like Me and Queens Supreme. Mansour is the winner of the 2012 Whiting Award and 2014 Middle East America Playwright Award.

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