Meg Miroshnik (born, Minneapolis) is an American playwright.

Life

Miroshnik received a Playwriting MFA from the

Yale School of Drama The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University is a graduate professional school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1924 as the Department of Drama in the School of Fine Arts, the school provides training in e ...

. Her play ''The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls'' won the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition and premiered at the

Alliance Theatre The Alliance Theatre is a theater company in Atlanta, Georgia, based at the Alliance Theatre, part of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, and is the winner of the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The company, originally the Atlanta Municipal T ...

in the 2011/2012 season. It was produced again at

Yale Rep Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of Yale School of Drama, in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented student ...

in 2014, directed by

Rachel Chavkin Rachel Chavkin (; born July 20, 1980) is an American stage director best known for directing the musicals '' Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812'' and '' Hadestown,'' receiving nominations for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical ...

. Also in 2014, Miroshnik returned to the Alliance Theatre with the world premiere of ''The Tall Girls''. Miroshnik's plays are published by

Samuel French Samuel French (1821–1898) was an American entrepreneur who, together with British actor, playwright and theatrical manager Thomas Hailes Lacy, pioneered in the field of theatrical publishing and the licensing of plays. Biography French foun ...

. She lives and works in Los Angeles. Meg Miroshnik is the recipient of a 2012 Whiting Award. She is a dramatic writer whose work features a heightened attention to language. Miroshnik's plays include ''The Droll, Old Actress, and an adaption of libretto for Shostakovich's

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, Cheryomushki.'' She has studied at

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

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 The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize established in 1978, is the largest and oldest playwriting prize for women+ writing for English-speaking theatre. Named for Susan Smith Blackburn (1935–1977), alumna of Smith College, who died of breast cancer. W ...

, Finalist for ''The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls'' * 2012 Whiting Award

Notes

External links

Author WebsiteProfile at The Whiting Foundation
Living people American women dramatists and playwrights Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights Writers from Minneapolis David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni 21st-century American women {{US-writer-stub