Artist

The Way West received a BareBonesworkshop at the Lark Play Development Center(directed by Linsay Firman) where Mona was a Fellowin 2012.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 just had its West Coast premiere at San Francisco’s Golden Thread Productions (directed by Evren Odcikin). The Vagrant, the third play in the trilogy, was workshopped at the 2013 Sundance Theater Institute. Mona was a member of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group,a Core Writer at Minneapolis’ Playwrights’ Center and has just been selected for membership in New Dramatists. Other plays include Across the Water, Girl Scouts of America and Broadcast Yourself (part of Headlong Theater’s Decade). With Tala Manassah she has written The House, After and The Letter, which premiered at Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festival. Their play Dressing is part of Facing Our Truths: Short Plays about Trayvon, Race and Privilege, a collection of plays commissioned by the New Black Festival.2013 Middle East America Playwright Award; 2012 Whiting Award. For my mother.