Talene Monahon is a Brooklyn-based playwright. She was featured in the NYTimes 2023 list of “Rising Theater Stars.” Plays: Off-Broadway: The Good John Proctor (Bedlam Theater, The New Yorker’s “Top 10 Best Plays of 2023”), Jane Anger (New Ohio; 2022 Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Play Nominee), How to Load a Musket (Less than Rent; TheaterMania’s “The 10 Best Theater Productions of 2020”), and Frankie & Will (MCC). Regional: The Good John Proctor (Trinity Rep), Jane Anger (Shakespeare Theater of D.C.), All in Good Fun (Peterborough Players). International: The Good John Proctor (Jermyn Street Theater, London, Off-West End Nominee–Best New Play). As an actor, Talene has performed in new plays at Roundabout Theater, The Atlantic, MCC, Playwright’s Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Red Bull Theater Company, New Georges and Partial Comfort, as well as selected film and television. Her work is published by TRW, and has been featured in The Cincinnati Review and McSweeney’s. She teaches at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. Education: B.A. Senior Fellow, Dartmouth College.
