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Mona Mansour

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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 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]

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Writer Mona Mansour in Brooklyn, NY
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Produced works

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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]

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