“Originally commissioned by The New Black Fest, Facing Our Truth is a collection of plays written by eight (8) diverse playwrights: Dominique Morisseau, Winter Miller, Dan O'Brien with Grammy Award-Winner Quetzal Flores, Marcus Gardley, Mona Mansour and Tala Manassah, and A. Rey Pamatmat.”

“In her play Urge for Going—which received a 2011 Public Theater LAB production in New York City under Hal Brooks’s direction, and will have its West Coast premiere Nov. 14–Dec. 8 presented by Golden Thread Productions at Z Space in San Francisco, with Evren Odcikin at the helm—the conflicts within a family of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon rise and fall in ways that leave you breathless.”

“The 10 recipients of this year’s Whiting Writers’ Award will be announced this evening at a ceremony in New York. The writers each receive $50,000 in recognition of exceptional talent and promise early in their careers.”

“When Mona Mansour wrote The Hour of Feeling, a play about a Palestinian couple who travel to London, she wanted to have her characters speak Arabic while abroad. But being an American playwright, she unknowingly put words in their mouths that were decidedly non-Palestinian in sentiment.”

“Playwright Mona Mansour leans back in the theater seat at Project Artaud and stretches her legs. She’s black-clad, wearing tights and boots in an unexpectedly hot San Francisco October. Having flown in from New York to see the staged reading of her play The Hour of Feeling, Mansour explains how she came to know theatre company Golden Thread Productions.”