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.

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, Next Stage Press, McSweeney's, The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, and Routledge. He is also published as a scholar, humorist, journalist, and poet. Bylines include American Theatre, HowlRound, Backstage, The Theatre Times, The Sondheim Review, and The Fight Master: Journal of the Society of American Fight Directors.

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 and the Society of American Fight Directors. He is an alumnus of Project Y's Playwrights' Group, Athena Writes 2017, Stony Brook University's Audio Podcast Fellows, as well as the award-winning Whistler in the Dark Theatre.

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. He also holds Executive Certificates in both Finance and Business Law from Cornell and a Certificate in Software Development from Columbia Engineering.

A first-generation American, he has lived on three continents, and four out of five boroughs of his native New York City, which he once again calls home.