Mona Mansour

2012 Winner in
Drama

Mona's play The Vagrant Trilogy received its NYC premiere in April 2022, two years after the production was postponed due to the pandemic. The play received a Critic's Pick from the New York Times, who said, "Woven of poetry and politics, threaded with comedy, it’s Stoppardian in its intellectualism and doesn’t shy from poignancy.” Other productions: Unseen (Mosaic Theatre, DC, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Way West (Steppenwolf, Labyrinth), We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War (Golden Thread) and Beginning Days of True Jubilation, which was conceived with her theater company SOCIETY and performed first on Zoom and later onstage at the New Ohio Theater in NYC. With Tala Manassah she has written Falling Down the Stairs. Their play Dressing is part of Facing Our Truths: Short Plays about Trayvon, Race and Privilege. Recent awards the 2020 Kesselring Prize, a 2021 Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting and in 2023, Mona received an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mona was a writer for NBC’s long-running series New Amsterdam and is currently creating a series set in the Middle East for Waleed and Joana Zuaiter’s FlipNarrative.

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Reviews & Praise

“The Hour of Feeling, now open at Actors Theatre, explores words. Explores language. Explores what happens when we try—and don’t try—to understand each other. And it explores those things in a very deep way.” —Lousville.com

“The Hour of Feeling [is] an intensely emotional journey from Palestine to London for a young Romantics scholar and his new wife on the eve of the Six-Day War . . . Mansour’s characters are rich and complex and it is a delight to watch the cast bring them to life.” —Erin Keane, WFPL

“[Urge for Going], which explores a 17-year-old girl's coming of age, is simultaneously intimate and expansive as it explores the details of her daily life, and ultimately, it has an undeniable ability to touch theatergoers' hearts while also engaging their minds.” —TheaterMania

Selected Works

We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War
Premiered in
2018
The Vagrant Trilogy
Premiered in
2018
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