Meg Miroshniik

Plays include THE FAIRYTALE LIVES OF RUSSIAN GIRLS (Or, ???????), THE DROLL {A Stage-Play about the END of Theatre}, and THE TALL GIRLS, a play about playing basketball. THE FAIRYTALE LIVES OF RUSSIAN GIRLS was a finalist for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the winner of the 2011-2012 Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award, and premiered at the Alliance Theatre in February 2012 (directed by Eric Rosen); in a Russian translation by Maria Kroupnik, the play is the winner of the Masterskaya na Begavoi and was produced by the Moscow Playwright and Director Center (directed by Ilya Shagalov). Her adaptation of the libretto for Shostakovich’s opera MOSCOW, CHERYOMUSHKI (re-orchestrated by Gerard McBurney, conducted by Alexander Platt, and directed by Mike Donahue) premiered at Chicago Opera Theater in April 2012. Her work has been developed or produced by the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Rep, the McCarter Theatre Center, Alliance Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Lark New Play Development Center, Yale Cabaret, the Carlotta Festival at Yale, Perishable Theatre, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, One Coast Collaboration, and published in Best American Short Plays, 2008-2009 (Applause, 2010).

Upcoming projects include residencies at the McCarter Theatre Center in June 2012 and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference in July 2012, and a commission for a new play for South Coast Rep. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama where she studied with Paula Vogel.

Meg hails from Minneapolis and currently lives in Los Angeles.