Meg Miroshnik is a playwright, librettist, and screenwriter whose work features a heightened attention to language. 

Meg Miroshnik's plays include The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, The Droll {A Stage-Play about the END of Theatre}, The Tall Girls, and an adaptation of the libretto for Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki. She is the recipient of a 2012 Whiting Award.

Her work has been developed or produced by the La Jolla Playhouse, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Center Theatre Group, Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Rep, the Sallie B. Goodman fellowship at the McCarter Theatre Center, Alliance Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Lark New Play Development Center, Chicago Opera Theater, the Moscow Playwright and Director Center, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Yale Cabaret, Perishable Theatre, WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, One Coast Collaboration, and published in Best American Short Plays, 2008-2009 (Applause, 2010). The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls was a finalist for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn prize and winner of the 2011-2012 Alliance/Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award.

Upcoming projects include productions of The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls at Yale Rep (directed by Kate Whoriskey, February 2014) and The Tall Girls at Alliance Theatre (directed by Susan V. Booth, March 2014) and commissions for new plays for South Coast Rep and Steppenwolf. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama where she studied with Paula Vogel.


Meg hails from Minneapolis and currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is a member of the Playwrights Union.