Mona Mansour

Mona Mansour is a Lebanese-American playwright and television writer based in Brooklyn. Her plays include Unseen (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Gift Theater); We Swim We Talk We Go to War (Golden Thread); he Way West (Labyrinth Theater, Steppenwolf). The full-length version of The Hour of Feeling was at Actors Theater of Louisville’s Humana Fest; an Arabic Translation was presented at NYU Abu Dhabi in 2016. Urge for Going was presented at The Public Theater and Golden Thread. Mona Mansour was a member of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group. With Tala Manassah she wrote Falling Down the Stairs, an EST/Sloan commission. Their play Dressing is part of Facing Our Truths, commissioned by the New Black Festival. Awards include: 2020 Kesselring, 2020 Helen Merrill Award, 2014 Middle East America Playwright Award. Residencies: MacDowell Colony, Space on Ryder Farm, Sundance Theater Institute, New Dramatists Class of 2020. Mona writes for NBC’s New Amsterdam, and is working on a script for AMC International. In 2019, she formed the theater company Society with Scott Illingworth and Tim Nicolai.