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Playwright, Librettist, Screenwriter

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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. He is a recent alum of the NYC Cohort of the 2019-2020 Stony Brook Southhampton Audio Podcast Fellows. 

His plays have been performed around the country and overseas and developed at venues that include the Lark Play Development Center in NYC, New Repertory Theatre, 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
Bloomsbury, Smith & Kraus, Applause Theatre Books, the Northwest Playwrights Alliance, YouthPLAYS, McSweeney's, The Langdon Review, Routledge, and Lamia Ink.   
Several of his plays are available on NPX: The New Play Exchange. 

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.

Meron's play Over Here was produced by Mortal Folly Theatre in the 2014 NYC International Fringe Festival.  It was a FringeReview UK Recommended Show and a Theatre Is Easy "Best Bet."

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 co-wrote (and fight directed) Love Hurts with Malarkey Films for the Boston 48 Hour Film Festival, which was selected for the Best of the 2013 Boston Festival screening.


He is an alumnus of Athena Theatre's 2017 Athena Writes play development project and of Project Y Theatre's Playwrights' Group.   He was a founding member of both the International Theatre Ensemble (NYC) and the International Company Project, a former board member of the Small Theatre Alliance of Boston an Artistic Associate of the award-winning Whister in the Dark Theatre and an Associate of Playwrights Commons and One Bird Productions.

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 Theatre History & Dramatic Literature 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


Meron is the creator and head writer of Slippery Slope, an audio drama incubated via the Audio Podcast Fellows.
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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).

Love Hurts, Malarkey Films' entry to the 2013 Boston 48 Hour Film Project
Meron was Co-Writer, Fight Choreographer, & Casting Director
Selected for the Best of the Festival Screening & DVD
Awards for Best Use of Assigned Character (Melis Aker + Writing Team: Meron, Ginger, Vladimir)
Best Fight Choreography (Meron Langsner)
Best Actress (Melis Aker)


".. this truly incredible seven minute picture." - Boston Independent Film Review
"Nails," a song co-created with the collaboration of Phil Berman, Colleen Hughes, and Corianna Moffatt as part of a conceived heavy metal children's musical during the 2011 Freedom Arts Retreat.  This video represents the first time the work was shared shortly after composition. 





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Selected Book Covers, Posters, & Graphics
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Includes THE GODOT VARIATIONS: WAITERS FOR GODOT, CALL WAITING FOR GODOT, and WHINING FOR GODOT
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Click for Production Photos
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Co-Author of Opera Libretto/Verse Play with Silvia Graziano.
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Includes JIMMY JIM JIM & THE M.F.M.
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From the Open Theatre Project's workshop reading of LEGACIES
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Meron was the author of A RAIN OF SEAGULLS.
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Includes BYSTANDER 9/11: A THEATRE PIECE CONCERNING THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
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Includes a selection from B'SHALOM
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AFTER THE HILL is available through YouthPLAYS
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Graphic for Vagabond Theatre Group's Reading of BURNING UP THE DICTIONARY
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From Whistler In The Dark Theatre's Playwright Incubator Project
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Logo for Mortal Folly Theatre's production of OVER HERE in the 2014 NYC Fringe Festival
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Includes JIMMY JIM JIM & THE M.F.M.
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Includes three of Meron's plays
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Co-Author of Opera Libretto/Verse Play with Silvia Graziano.
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From Holland Productions' reading of THE DEVIL'S OWN GAME
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Includes AFTER THE HILL


    Links to various articles about Meron as a playwright:


"Interview: Over Here at the 2014 NYC International Fringe Festival" - Indie Theater Now

"All the World's a Stage" - Tufts Graduate E-News

"Drama GSAS Doctoral Student Engages in Unique Project Across State Lines" - Tufts Graduate E-News

"Interview with Playwright Meron Langsner" - The Actor's Role in Developing New Work: Interviews with Playwrights and Directors


"Interview with Meron Langsner - Burning Up the Dictionary" - Vagabond Theatre Group Blog

"Meron Langsner's Burning Up The Dictionary for TWBW" - Vagabond Theatre Group Blog

"There Were Words: Recap of Meron Langsner's Burning Up the Dictionary"
- Vagabond Theatre Group Blog

"A Few Words from Gi60 Writer Meron Langsner" - Gi60: The World's Only International One-Minute Play Festival

"Israeli Play from Boston Invited to Major Festival in Alaska" - All About Jewish Theatre


"The Lark and National New Play Network Bring Playwrights Together" - LarkTheatre.org

"Who's Who in The Devil's Own Game" - Holland Productions Blog

"Play About a Crucial Week" - The Dedham Transcript

"Memories Kept Through Theatre: One Year Later" - The Brandeis Justice

"Bystander 9/11 A Poignant, Promising Work from Student" - The Brandeis Justice

"Recent Drama Graduate Selected for Prestigious Arts Retreat" - Tufts Graduate E-News

"Writing the Fight: Part 1 of 2" - HowlRound

"Teaching 'Writing the Fight' at Region I KC/ACTF" - Scan of an article from The Cutting Edge: Newsletter of the Society of American Fight Directors

Meron's Amazon.com Author Page


Meron's page on The New Play Exchange
 
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