Meg Miroshnik Explained

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, 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

External links

• Author Website
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: Meg Miroshnik. Playwrights' Center. 17 August 2018.
2. Web site: The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, February 3–February 26, 2012 at the Alliance Theatre . 2015-08-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150909125936/http://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/the-fairytale-lives-russian-girls . 2015-09-09 . dead .
3. Web site: 2013-14 Yale Repertory Theatre | the Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls . 2015-08-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150826035230/http://www.yalerep.org/on_stage/2013-14/fairytale.html . 2015-08-26 . dead .
4. Web site: The Tall Girls, March 7–March 30, 2014 at the Alliance Theatre . 2015-08-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150909113429/http://www.alliancetheatre.org/production/the-tall-girls . 2015-09-09 . dead .
5. Web site: Search | Samuel French . 2015-08-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924093944/http://www.samuelfrench.com/catalog/search?author=Meg%20Miroshnik . 2015-09-24 . dead .
6. Web site: meg miroshnik, dramatist. meg miroshnik - dramatist. 17 August 2018.
7. Web site: meg miroshnik, dramatist. meg miroshnik dramatist. 2019-12-13.