Meg Miroshnik

Meg Miroshnik’s plays include THE FAIRYTALE LIVES OF RUSSIAN GIRLS, THE DROLL {Or, a Stage-Play about the END of Theatre}, THE TALL GIRLS, and A PORTRAIT OF THE WOMAN AS A YOUNG ARTIST. THE TALL GIRLS was selected as part of the 2012 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. 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 operetta 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, Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Rep, the Kennedy Center, McCarter Theatre 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). She was a 2012 McCarter/Sallie B. Goodman fellow and is working on commissions for new plays for South Coast Rep and Kennesaw State University. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama where she studied with Paula Vogel.