Drama Program: Graduate Students & TAs

Graduate Students

Meron Langsner

MFA Brandeis, MA NYU/Tisch, BA (hons) SUNY Buffalo.

Meron is a doctoral candidate writing his dissertation on the representation of martial arts on the American stage.  His research interests include: performance of violence, development and dissemination of physical training methods, headshots and the actor as entrepreneur, and staging of the Faust myth.

Scholarly publications include material in Text & Presentation, Puppetry International, The Fight Master, All About Jewish Theat re, and The African American National Biography, among others.

He has presented at ASTR, ATHE, MATC, CDC, PCA/ACA. KC/ACTF, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, and the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Conference.

Meron was one of three writers in the country to receive an inaugural National New Play Network Emerging Playwright Residency during the 2007/2008 season and has been a featured artist at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska.  His plays have been published by Applause Theatre Books and Lamia Ink and have been performed around the country and overseas   Meron is active as a professional fight choreographer and director in Boston and NYC.

Meron received an Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education Award from Tufts in 2008.

For more information on Meron's work as published by Tufts E-News, follow this URL: http://enews.tufts.edu/focus/36/2008/02/25/TheWorldsAStage