Playwright, unseen
Mona is thrilled to be making her OSF debut with unseen, partnering again with Evren Odcikin, who directed We Swim We Talk We Go To War at Golden Thread in 2018. Her play The Vagrant Trilogy makes its NYC debut in April 2022 at the Public Theater, directed by Mark Wing-Davey; it was postponed for two years due to Covid-19. The trilogy was presented at Mosaic Theater in 2018 (dir. Wing-Davey.) Of the trilogy: The Hour of Feeling (dir. Wing-Davey) premiered at the Humana Fest, and an Arabic translation was presented at NYU Abu Dhabi. Urge for Going: Public Theater (dir. Hal Brooks) and Golden Thread (dir. Odcikin). The Vagrant was commissioned by the Public and workshopped at the 2013 Sundance Theater Institute. The Way West: Labyrinth (dir. Mimi O’Donnell); Steppenwolf (dir. Amy Morton); and Marin Theatre Company (dir. Hayley Finn). Mona was a member of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group. With Tala Manassah she has written Falling Down the Stairs. Their play Dressing is part of Facing Our Truths, commissioned by the New Black Festival. Awards: Helen Merrill, Whiting, Middle East America Playwright Award. MacDowell Colony 2018, New Dramatists Class of 2020. Mona writes for NBC’s New Amsterdam and is creating series for FlipNarrative and AMC International. Beginning Days of True Jubilation, directed by Scott Illingworth and conceived with her company SOCIETY, goes up at the New Ohio in June 2022.