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 is currently 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 and Dead Like Me.

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)

Awards and honors

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