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Mona Mansour

モナ・マンソール

Mona Mansour

Profile

Gender
Female
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Brooklyn, NY

Career

Occupations
playwright, screenwriter
Active Years
2011-
Affiliations
Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, Playwrights' Center Core Writer, New Dramatists

Awards

Whiting Award
2012
Organization: Whiting Foundation
Result: Winner
Sky Cooper New American Play Prize
2013
Work: The Way West
Result: Winner
Middle East America Playwright Award
2014
Result: Winner
Helen Merrill Award
2020
Result: Winner
Kesselring Award
2020
Result: Winner
Arts and Letters Award in Literature
2023
Organization: American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result: Winner
Steinberg Award
2023
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Urge for Going

2011 play

Produced at Public Theater (New York, 2011) (Public LAB production).

Middle East

The Hour of Feeling

2012 play

Produced at Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville (2012).

Middle East

The Way West

2014 play

Produced at Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago, 2014); Marin Theatre Company (San Francisco, 2015); LAByrinth Theater Company (New York, 2016).

Middle East

Unseen

2022 play

Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2022; Mosaic Theater, 2023.

Middle Eastsuffering

Beginning Days of True Jubilation

2022 play

With SOCIETY Theater, 2022.

The Vagrant Trilogy

2022 play

Public Theater, 2022. A story of Palestinian exile.

Palestineexilehome

Translations by Author

  • Queens Supreme, Dead Like Me, New Amsterdam

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Contemporary plays about the Middle East
Recurring Motifs
Middle Eastexileidentity

Legacy

American playwright of Middle Eastern descent known for works about the Middle East, recipient of multiple awards including Whiting and Steinberg Awards.

Trivia

  • Frequently collaborated with English director Mark Wing-Davey.