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Mona Mansour

MONA MANSOUR

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Gersh Agency, NY  represented by Jessica Amato

Mona Mansour's play Unseen is part of the inaugural Crossroads project at South Coast Rep. Her play The Way West had its world premiere in spring of 2014 at Steppenwolf, directed by Amy Morton. The play received the 2013 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize from Marin Theatre Company, where it is receiving its West Coast premiere, directed by Hayley Finn. The Hour of Feeling (directed by Mark Wing-Davey) received its world premiere in the 2012 Humana Festival in Louisville. Following that, it was part of the High Tide Festival in the U.K. as part of the Rifle Hall plays. Urge for Going (directed by Hal Brooks) received a LAB production in the 2011 season at the Public Theater, and had its West Coast premiere at San Francisco's Golden Thread (directed by Evren Odcikin). The Vagrant, the third play in the trilogy, was commissioned by the Public Theater and workshopped at the 2013 Sundance Theater Institute with Mark Wing-Davey directing. Mona was a member of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, a Lark Fellow, a Core Writer at Minneapolis' Playwrights' Center, and is now a member of New Dramatists. With Tala Manassah she has written Dressing, part of Facing Our Truths: Short Plays about Trayvon, Race and Privilege, a collection of plays commissioned by the New Black Festival. 2012 Whiting Award. 2014 Middle East America Playwright Award. monamansour.com

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Across the Water         Broadcast Yourself         Dressing         Girl Scouts Of America         Holiday Stucco         Hour Of Feeling, The         Masses, The         Unseen         Urge For Going         Vagrant, The         Way West, The         We Swim, We Talk, We Go To War         Worse Things
Across the Water

Synopsis:
a ferry ride away from the turmoil of Manhattan is Staten Island, an island of cultural conflict unto itself. the "fifth borough" reveals its forgotten and marginalized history from the discoveries of Verrazano to the hardships of Willowbrook to the uncertainties of today.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Shubert theatre
225 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036     30 Nov 2011

Organisations:
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Graduate acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film

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Broadcast Yourself

Broadcast Yourself
No-one can forget the moment they heard the news. September 11th, 2001 sent shockwaves across the globe. It was a day that was supposed to change the world forever.Ten years on, a team of major writers and thinkers explore our responses to the defining event of our times in a new production from Headlong, creators of the multi award-winning eNRON. Rupert Goold's theatre company transforms a former trading hall into an immersive theatrical experience, taking you from the tranquil setting of St Katharine Docks on the River Thames to the bright blue skies of downtown Manhattan and beyond.

Notes:
part of Decade: Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays. Ten years After 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here Are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, An immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company. the writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood.

1st Produced:
Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1Az     01 Sep 2011

Organisations:
Headlong

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Music:
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Genre:
short piece

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Dressing

Dressing
A mother teases her son about the way he has got dressed for school

Notes:
Written by Tala Manassah and Mona Mansour

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Facing Our Truth" published by Samuel French   

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Short play

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Girl Scouts Of America

Synopsis:
a comedy about life's little merit badges- and the price that girls pay to earn them. Feisty young women maneuver their way through summer camp, sleepovers and sapphic urges. Will they find their way? It won't be with a compass.

Notes:
written by Andrea Berloff And Mona Mansour. Venue 6: Henry Street Settlement - Recital Hall

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Organisations:
elevenTWeLVe in association with Ooh la la

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Drama 90 min Comedy

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Holiday Stucco

Synopsis:
Holiday Stucco will feature new one-act plays by members of the Public theater's emerging Writers Group including playwrights Nikole Beckwith, Chris Cragin Day, Deen, Sevan Kaloustian Green, aaron Wigdor Levy, Mona Mansour, Don Nguyen, Jerome Parker, Stalla Fawn Ragsdale, akin Salawu, and Pia Wilson. every winter holiday is up for grabs in this seasonal spectacular!
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Kraine theater
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003     15 Dec 2011

Organisations:
Horse Trade Theatre Group

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Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Hour Of Feeling, The

Hour Of Feeling, The
in 1967, fuelled by a love of english Romantic poetry, a young Palestinian academic, adham, and his new wife, abir, take a trip to London, where he will deliver a career defining lecture. While the situation in his home "country" deteriorates and his marriage threatens to dissolve, adham confronts his fear of failure and the reality that he may be an outsider no matter where he goes.

Notes:
Part one of "TheVagrant Trilogy"

1st Produced:
4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003     15 Nov 2010

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Masses, The

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Genre:
Drama

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Unseen

Synopsis:
Conflict photographer Mia wakes up in the Istanbul apartment of her on-again, off-again girlfriend after being found unconscious at the scene of a massacre she was photographing. Mia can't even remember being there, but she wired photos of the site hours before she was found. The two women resume their volatile push-pull when Mia's well-meaning Californian mother arrives from the US, trying to help unravel what happened to her daughter.

Notes:
Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual industry survey of excellent new plays by female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater.

1st Produced:
Commission, South Coast Repertory     2014

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Genre:
drama

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Urge For Going

Synopsis:
Jamila, a 17-year-old Palestinian girl growing up in a Lebanese refugee camp, is desperate to escape the small and impoverished world she calls home but her greatest source of inspiration, her father, may also prove to be her biggest obstacle. Mona Mansour, a member of the Public's emerging Writers Group making her major debut with this production, fuses global politics with the intimacy of coming of age in this searing new play.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Part three of "The Vagrant Trilogy"

1st Produced:
Public theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003     10 Apr 2011

Organisations:
the Public Theater

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Vagrant, The

Synopsis:
Adham is in London waiting to see if he has got a proffessorship to University Colle. He is divorced but Abir has followed him to London

Notes:
Part two of "The Vagrant Trilogy"

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Way West, The

Synopsis:
the WAY WeST tells the story of a modern-day, falling-apart California town, where Mom shares with her two squabbling daughters death-defying tales of pioneer crossings as she waits for her bankruptcy to come through. Stories are stretched, songs are broken into, and checks are forged as Mom and her grown girls scrape for survival. This is a Lark Play Development Center's BareBones workshop.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Lark Studio
939 eighth AVenue, Suite 301, New York, NY 10019     02 Nov 2012

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We Swim, We Talk, We Go To War

Synopsis:
A woman of Arab descent and her nephew who has just enlisted in the US Military talk about loyalty, identity andfamily

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Potrero Stage, San Francisco     16 Nov 2018

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Music:
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Drama

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Worse Things

Worse Things
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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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