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.[8]

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
  1. "Meg Miroshnik". Playwrights' Center. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2015-08-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-08-26. Retrieved 2015-08-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2015-08-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "meg miroshnik, dramatist". meg miroshnik - dramatist. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  7. "meg miroshnik, dramatist". meg miroshnik | dramatist. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  8. "meg miroshnik, dramatist". meg miroshnik | dramatist. Retrieved 2019-12-13.


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