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. He is currently in the NYC Cohort of the 2019-2020 Stony Brook Southhampton Arts 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, Th e 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 Ma larkey 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

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).