Meg Miroshnik
Meg Miroshnik (born, Minneapolis) is an American playwright.
Life[]
Miroshnik received a Playwriting MFA from the Yale School of Drama.[1] Her play The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls won the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition and premiered at the Alliance Theatre in the 2011/2012 season.[2] It was produced again at Yale Rep in 2014, directed by Rachel Chavkin.[3] Also in 2014, Miroshnik returned to the Alliance Theatre with the world premiere of The Tall Girls.[4]
Miroshnik's plays are published by Samuel French.[5] She lives and works in Los Angeles.[6]
Meg Miroshnik is the recipient of a 2012 Whiting Award.[7] She is a dramatic writer whose work features a heightened attention to language. Miroshnik's plays include The Droll{ A Stage Play about the END of theatre}, Old Actress, and an adaption of libretto for Shostakovich's Moscow, Cheryomushki.[7]
She has studied at Moscow State University and worked as a freelance magazine writer.
Produced works[]
- The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls - Alliance Theatre (Atlanta, 2012); Yale Rep (New Haven, 2014)
- The Tall Girls - Alliance Theatre (Atlanta, 2014)
- The Droll - Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep (Providence, 2014) (workshop production); Undermain Theatre (Dallas, 2015)
Awards and honors[]
- 2012 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition for The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls
- 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Finalist for The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls
- 2012 Whiting Award
Notes[]
- ^ "Meg Miroshnik". Playwrights' Center. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2015-08-27.
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- ^ a b "meg miroshnik, dramatist". meg miroshnik | dramatist. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
External links[]
- Living people
- American women dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
- Writers from Minneapolis
- Yale School of Drama alumni
- 21st-century American women
- American writer stubs