Meron Langsner was one of three writers in the country selected for the pilot year of the National New Play Network Emerging Playwrights Residencies, fulfilling his residency at the New Repertory Theatre. His work has been performed around the country and overseas, and developed at the Lark Play Development Center in NYC, the Last Frontier Theatre Conference (where he has also been a Featured Artist), and the New England Regional ACTF Festival. Publishers of his plays include Bloomsbury, Smith & Kraus, Applause, Routledge, and YouthPLAYS. As a fight director, he has composed violence for more than 175 productions, films, and tours, in venues that include the American Repertory Theater, Merrimack Rep, New Rep, and Ensemble Studio Theatre, as well as for PBS. His scholarship on stage violence and movement has been published by McFarland, The Fight Master, The Theatre Times, and other imprints. He holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU/Tisch, an MFA in Playwriting from Brandeis, and a PhD in Theatre History from Tufts University (where he won the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education), as well as an Executive Certificate in Finance from Cornell. He did his undergraduate work at Carnegie Mellon and SUNY Buffalo.  Meron is an alum of the play development programs of Project Y and Athena Theatre.  Member: Dramatists Guild, SAFD: Society of American Fight Directors, IDI: Intimacy Directors International.