Meron Langsner

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Meron Langsner is a playwright, scholar, and fight director/movement specialist. He has composed violence for over 150 productions, films, and tours in New England and NYC, at venues that include: the American Repertory Theatre (LORT), Merrimack Rep (LORT), ArtsEmerson, New Repertory Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and numerous academic venues. His writings on stage combat, theatrical movement, and martial arts have appeared in The Fight Master: Journal of the Society of American Fight Directors, HowlRound, Text & Presentation (McFarland), The Journal of Asian Martial Arts, The Sondheim Review, Backstage, and other imprints. Meron was one of three playwrights in the country selected for the pilot year of the National New Playwrights Emerging Writer Residencies. His plays have been performed around the country and overseas and published by Bloomsbury, Smith & Kraus, Applause, Indie Theatre Now, and YouthPLAYS. Meron is a Core Faculty member of the Tom Toderoff Conservatory in NYC and has also taught at Emerson, Boston University, Prescott College, and Tufts University (Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergrad Education). He holds an MA in Performance Theory from NYU/Tisch, an MFA in Playwrighting from Brandeis, and a doctorate in Theatre History from Tufts University.