Meg Miroshnik (born Minneapolis) is an American

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin ...

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 ...

. 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. It is part of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center. The company, originally the Atlanta Municipal Theatre, staged its first production (''King Arthur'') at the Alliance in 1968. The ...

in the 2011/2012 season. It was produced again at Yale Rep in 2014, directed by

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. 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 A license (American Englis ...

. 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

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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 The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...

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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-playwright-stub