Mara Dresner
Mara Dresner’s Shiva received the Honegger Prize for Best Full-Length Play from Firehouse Center for the Arts (Newburyport, MA) and was a finalist for the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women.... Read more
Mara Dresner’s Shiva received the Honegger Prize for Best Full-Length Play from Firehouse Center for the Arts (Newburyport, MA) and was a finalist for the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women. Her plays have been produced by numerous theatres, including with Duluth Playhouse in their Underground Season (Minnesota), American Theatre of Actors (NYC), Federal Theatre Project (Washington, D.C.), Echo Theatre (Dallas), College of the Siskiyous (California), Muscatine County Arts Council (Iowa), Center Stage Players (West Virginia), Highland Players/St. Andrews University (North Carolina), Finke Theatre (Missouri), Neillsville Area Players (Wisconsin) and Theatre Arts for Everyone (Pennsylvania). A monologue from her short drama Into That Good Night is included in The Best Women’s Monologues from New Plays, 2020 (edited by Lawrence Harbison).