The Vagrant Trilogy

Mona Mansour is an American playwright of Lebanese descent born circa 1975, raised in Southern California by a Lebanese immigrant father and an American mother from Seattle. She is best known for her plays exploring themes of displacement, the Middle East, and Arab-American experiences, including The Vagrant Trilogy, Unseen, and The Way West, and has received major awards such as the Whiting Award, Steinberg Award, and residencies at New Dramatists and the Public Theater. She is alive and continues to write for theater and television.