Talene Monahon is the author of The Good John Proctor (Bedlam, The New Yorker’s Top 10 Best Plays of 2023), Jane Anger (New Ohio Theatre; 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 Theater). Her plays have been produced regionally by Trinity Repertory Company, Shakespeare Theatre Company of D.C., Warehouse Theatre and Peterborough Players. International: The Good John Proctor (Jermyn Street Theatre, London, Off-West End Nominee–Best New Play). Monahon’s writing has been published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide, The Cincinnati Review and McSweeney’s and commissioned by Classic Stage Company, Northern Stage, and Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. She teaches Playwriting at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Upcoming productions: Meet the Cartozians at Second Stage in Fall 2025 (dir. David Cromer) and Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret at Northern Stage Spring 2026. B.A. Dartmouth College.