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]

Writer Mona Mansour in Brooklyn, NY

Produced works

• 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

• 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]