Playwright

Playwright, Librettist, Screenwriter

Rehearsal Photo

MERON LANGSNER was one of three writers in the country selected for the pilot year of the National New Play Network Emerging Playwright Residencies, fulfilling his residency at the New Repertory Theater in Boston, Massachusetts.

His plays have been performed around the country and overseas and developed at venues that include the Lark Play Development Center in NYC, New Rep, Playwrights Commons (Freedom Arts Retreat & Playwrights Playground), the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival, the Comparative Drama Conference, and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska (where he had the honor of returning as a featured artist).

Publishers of Meron's plays include Smith & Kraus, Applause Theatre Books, the Northwest Playwrights Alliance, YouthPLAYS, JAC Publications & Promotions, McSweeney's, and Lamia Ink. He will also have a play included in an The Methuen Drama Anthology of Testimonial Plays, to be released by Bloomsbury Publishing, UK in the Fall of 2013.

Meron's plays have won awards and grants from the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival, the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and numerous other arts & theater organizations.

He was nominated for an IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for Best New Play for Vagabond Theatre Group's production of Burning Up the Dictionary.

He recently co-wrote (and fight directed) Love Hurts with Malarkey Films for the Boston 48 Hour Film Festival.

Meron is a member of the Dramatists Guild, an Artistic Associate of Whistler in the Dark Theatre Company and an Affiliated Artist of Playwrights Commons.

He received his MFA in Playwriting from Brandeis University, and holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a PhD in Drama from Tufts University.

Click Here for a List of Plays Available for Production And/Or Development

Click Here for Links to Articles About Meron's Work as a Playwright

Click Here for a Selection of Videos of Meron's Short Plays from the Gi60 Festival in Brooklyn, NY

These are some of Justina Kochansky's layered masks from a production Masquerade, that was performed at both Boston's Puppet Showplace Theatre and Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center. The director was Kathryn Walsh. During the same period, another production was directed by Sarah Benson at the Medicine Show Theatre in New York City. Masquerade has been presented by several other companies, including Theatre Limina in Minneapolis and Whistler in the Dark in Boston (as part of the Whistler Wednesday series).