Meron Langsner

Librettist Playwright
he/him/his

MERON LANGSNER was one of three writers in the country selected for the pilot year of the National New Play Network Emerging Playwright Residencies, fulfilling his residency at the New Repertory Theater in Boston, Massachusetts.  He is currently based in NYC. His plays have been performed around the country and overseas and developed at venues that include the Lark Play Development Center in NYC, New Rep, Playwrights Commons (Freedom Arts Retreat & Playwrights Playground), the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival, the Comparative Drama Conference, and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska (where he had the honor of returning as a featured artist). Publishers of Meron's plays include Bloomsbury, Smith & Kraus, Applause Theatre Books, the Northwest Playwrights Alliance, YouthPLAYS, McSweeney's, and Routledge. Meron's plays have won awards and grants from the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival, the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and numerous other arts & theater organizations. He was nominated for an IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award for Best New Play for Vagabond Theatre Group's production of Burning Up the Dictionary. Meron is a member of the Dramatists Guild, SAFD: The Society of American Fight Directors, and the Episcopal Actors Guild. He is an alumnus of Project Y's Playwrights' Group and Athena Writes, as well as the award-winning Whistler in the Dark Theatre.  Also active as a fight director, he has over 175 productions, tours, and films to his credit, at venues that include ART: The American Repertory Theatre, Merrimack Rep, New Rep, Downtown Urban Arts Festival, EST, PBS, and numerous academic institutions.  He received his MFA in Playwriting from Brandeis University and holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a PhD in Drama from Tufts University.  Additionally, he holds Executive Certificates in Financial Management and Business Law from Cornell University and a Certificate in Software Development from Columbia Engineering.