Mona Mansour

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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 is currently 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 and Dead Like Me.^[3]

• 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)

• 2012 Whiting Award
• 2013 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize for The Way West
• 2014 Middle East America Playwright Award

• Author Website
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation