Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora)

Vickie is a founding member of Chukalokoli and Amerinda Theater, with a remarkable career in developing and producing plays at prestigious theaters like Native Voices at the Autry, Alter Theater, The Public Theater, The Roundabout Theatre Company, and Labyrinth Theater Company. She is currently a Resident at New Dramatists through 2027. She is an alumna of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group (2009).
 

• Selected Works:

  • Pure Native (produced at Geva Theater (pending Spring 2025) Native Voices at the Autry)

  • Standoff at Hwy #37 (produced at Native Voices at the Autry and the University of Dakota)

  • Glenburn 12 WP (produced at Summer Shorts, 59E59)

  • Smoke (produced by Mixed Phoenix Theatre Group at Pershing Square Signature Center)

  • Monologues for Actors of Color: Women (published in Routledge Press)

  • Monologues for Actors of Color: Men (published in Routledge Press)

  • Contemporary Plays by Women of Color Edition 2 (published in Routledge Press)

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• Awards & Fellowships:

  • Winner Inaugural Democracy Cycle Grant (PAC NYC)

  • Resident at New Dramatists (through 2027)

  • Winner of the 2020 Smith Prize for Political Theater (NNPN)

  • The Kilroys - Honorary Mention 2019 (Pure Native) and 2014 (Standoff At Hwy #37)

  • Semi-finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival (2019)

  • Semi-finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference (2018)

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• Memberships & Consulting:

  • Member of Dramatists Guild and PEN America

  • Consultant for Amazon TV’s Outer Range

Mona Mansour

Mona is a Lebanese-American playwright and TV writer with a range of impactful work across theater and television. Her play UNSEEN was staged at Mosaic Theater from April to May 2023 and previously ran at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from April to July 2022. Mona's The VAGRANT TRILOGY made its New York City premiere at The Public Theater in May 2022, and BEGINNING DAYS OF TRUE JUBILATION, conceived with her theater company SOCIETY, was performed at the New Ohio Theater in June 2022. In television, Mona worked on NBC’s long-running series New Amsterdam and is currently developing a series Fisher Stevens' Highly Flammable and Littleton Road. She is working on the musical BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOL with singer-composer Hannah Corneau, directed by Michael Greif.

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• Awards and Fellowships:

  • Steinberg Playwright Award, 2023

  • Award in Literature, Academy of Arts and Letters, 2023; 

  • The Kesselring Prize for Playwriting, 2020

  • Helen Merrill Award, 2020

  • The Whiting Award, 2012

  • Resident at MacDowell, and New Dramatists Class of 2020.

• Titled Works:

  • UNSEEN (Mosaic Theater, 2023; Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2022)

  • The Vagrant Trilogy (NYC’s Public Theater, 2022)

  • Beginning Days of True Jubilation (New Ohio Theater, 2022)

  • NBC’s New Amsterdam (TV writer)

  • Developing a series with Waleed and Joana Zuaiter’s Flip Narrative

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