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. Mansour often writes about the Middle East, and she has frequently collaborated with English director Mark Wing-Davey. In addition to her theater work, Mansour has written for the television shows Queens Supreme, Dead Like Me, and New Amsterdam.
Produced works
Urge for Going - Public Theater The Hour of Feeling - Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville The Way West - Steppenwolf Theatre ; Marin Theatre Company ; LAByrinth Theater Company Unseen Beginning Days of True Jubilation- ''The Trilogy''
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
- 2020 Kesselring Award
- 2023 Arts and Letters Award in Literature
- 2023