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 (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 ) Beginning Days of True Jubilation (with SOCIETY Theater, 2022) The Vagrant Trilogy (Public Theater, 2022)

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 Steinberg Award