Talene Monahon

Talene Monahon is an Armenian-American actress and playwright.

Talene Monahon
Talene Monahon
Monahon in 2025
Born
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationDartmouth College (BA)

Talene Monahon is an Armenian-American actress and playwright.

Her play Meet the Cartozians was a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[1][2]

Early life

Monahon was born in Boston and grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts.[3][4] She is a 2013 graduate of Dartmouth College.[5]

Monahon was a child actor in regional and amateur productions in the Boston area.[6][4][5]

Career

How to Load a Musket

How to Load a Musket, Monahon's play about historical reenactment, was produced as a staged reading at the Cape Cod Theatre Project in 2017,[7] and had its premier production at Manhattan's 59E59 Theaters in January 2020.[8][9][10][11]

Monahon began researching historical reenactment in 2015, first interviewing Revolutionary War reenactors in Massachusetts and New York, then interviewing Civil War reenacters and performance artist Dread Scott, who produced a 2017 reenactment of the 1811 German Coast uprising. Monahon's play is created entirely from the words of her politically, ethnically and socioeconomically diverse interviewees, whose views of their hobby evolve over the years during which the interviews took place.[12][9]

Meet the Cartozians

Her play, Meet the Cartozians, premiered Off-Broadway in 2025 at Second Stage Theatre, running from October 29 through December 14, 2025. Directed by David Cromer, the production starred Raffi Barsoumian, Will Brill, Andrea Martin, Nael Nacer, Susan Pourfar, and Tamara Sevunts.[13] The production received critical acclaim, with The New York Times calling it "captivating"[14] and TheatreMania praising it as "genuinely great."[15]

The play was nominated for three Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Play,[16] two Outer Critics Circle Awards, winning for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play,[17] and was a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[18]

Acting

Monahon has performed on stage in New York and other cities.[19][20][21][22][23] New York Times theater critic Laura Collins-Hughes describes Monahon as playing Blanche Sartorious in George Bernard Shaw's Widowers' Houses "with such take-no-prisoners ferocity that she awakened the sleeping man in front of me during a fight scene."[21] Terry Teachout, theater critic for the Wall Street Journal, described Monahon's Blanche as "a startlingly predatory vampire," in a production of Shaw's work that was "as good as it gets."[24]

Monahon has a handful of television acting credits, most recently appearing as Assistant District Attorney Conway in the CBS legal drama Bull.[25]

Plays

Source: [26]

  • How to Load a Musket (2020)
  • Jane Anger (2022)
  • The Good John Proctor (2023)
  • Meet the Cartozians (2025)
  • Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret (2027)[27]

Acting- Stage Credits

Year Title Role Venue Ref.
2014 The Chocolate Show! Woman 1 Off-Broadway, 47th Street Theatre [28]
2015 The Wild Party Mae Off-Broadway, Off-City Center Encores!
2017 Tell Hector I Miss Him La Gata Off-Broadway, Atlantic Theatre Company
The Government Inspector Performer Off-Broadway, Red Bull Theatre
A Man's World Lione Brune Off-Broadway, Leonard Nimoy Thalia
2018 Log Cabin Myna Off-Broadway, Playwrights Horizons
Apologia Trudi Off-Broadway, Roundabout Theatre Company
2022 Jane Anger Anne Hathaway (also playwright) Off-off-Broadway, New Ohio Theatre
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.
2023 The Good John Proctor Betty Paris (select performances; also playwright) Off-Broadway, Connelly Theater
2026 Wonder! A Woman Keeps A Secret Gibby (shared role with Will Brill; also playwright) Northern Stage, Vermont
The Family Dog Jillian Off-off-Broadway, Clubbed Thumb

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2026 Pulitzer Prize Drama Meet the Cartozians Nominated [29][30]
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play Nominated [31]
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play Won [32]

References

  1. ^ "2026 Pulitzer Prizes". pulitzer.org.Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  2. ^ "2026 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, Talene Monahon". pulitzer.org.Retrieved 2026-05-05.
  3. ^ "Talene Monahon". Huntington Theatre Company. Retrieved May 6, 2026.
  4. ^ a b Killeen, Wendy (24 July 2005). "French Impressions". Boston Globe.
  5. ^ a b Schreiber, Katherine (12 October 2015). "Monahon '13 discusses her acting career". The Dartmouth. University News Wire.
  6. ^ "'Oz' playing in Wellesley, with a twist". The Boston Globe. 16 March 2006. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  7. ^ Armstrong, Beth (14 July 2017). "CCTP Presents 'How To Load A Musket'". The Enterprise. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  8. ^ "HOW TO LOAD A MUSKET makes world premiere at 59E59 Theaters" (PDF). 59e59.org (Press release). New York City: 59E59 Theaters. November 25, 2019. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  9. ^ a b Soloski, Alexis (16 January 2020). "'How to Load a Musket' Review: A Play About Re-enactors Gets Real". The New York Times. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
  10. ^ Chadwick, Bruce (January 19, 2020). "A Play About Historical Reenactors Grapples With American Identity". History News Network. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  11. ^ Snook, Raven (21 January 2020). "How to Load a Musket". Time Out New York.
  12. ^ Clement, Olivia (25 November 2019). "Adam Chanler-Berat, Carolyn Braver, Ryan Spahn, More Tapped for World Premiere of How to Load a Musket". Playbill. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  13. ^ Hall, Margaret (24 November 2025). "Meet the Cartozians Extends Off-Broadway". Playbill. Retrieved 20 May 2026.
  14. ^ Ramírez, Juan A. (November 18, 2025). "'Meet the Cartozians' Review: Who Gets to Be White in America?". The New York Times. Retrieved May 24, 2026.
  15. ^ Gordon, David (November 18, 2025). "Review: Meet the Cartozians, Not the Kardashians". TheaterMania. Retrieved May 24, 2026.
  16. ^ Gans, Andrew (May 17, 2026). "Ragtime Leads 2026 Drama Desk Awards; Read the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Retrieved May 19, 2026.
  17. ^ "Schmigadoon!, Ragtime Win Big at 2026 Outer Critics Circle Awards; Read the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Retrieved May 11, 2026.
  18. ^ Hall, Margaret (May 4, 2026). "LIBERATION Wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama". Playbill. Retrieved May 24, 2026.
  19. ^ Phillips, Maya (9 October 2019). "Review: Stuck in Maine in 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  20. ^ Brantley, Ben (16 December 2018). "Review: Stockard Channing Is a Mother to Remember in 'Apologia'". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  21. ^ a b Collins-Hughes, Laura (14 March 2016). "Review: In 'Widowers' Houses,' Loving a Slumlord's Daughter". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  22. ^ Sommers, Michael (17 January 2020). "How to Load a Musket: Re-creating Your Own Personal American History". New York Stage Review. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  23. ^ Windman, Matt (2 June 2017). "'The Government Inspector' review: Talented cast romps in high-energy, fast-paced farce". Newsday.
  24. ^ Teachout, Terry (22 March 2016). "'Widowers' Houses' Review: The Things We Do for Money". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  25. ^ "Talene Monahon at IMDB". IMDb. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  26. ^ "Talene Monahon". Theatrical Rights Worldwide. Retrieved June 14, 2026.
  27. ^ "The Wonder". Classic Stage Company. Retrieved June 14, 2026.
  28. ^ "Talene Monahon: Credits, Bio, News & More". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved June 14, 2026.
  29. ^ Hall, Margaret (May 4, 2026). "'Liberation' Wins the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama". Playbill. Retrieved June 14, 2026.
  30. ^ "The 2026 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama: Meet the Cartozians, by Talene Monahon". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved June 14, 2026.
  31. ^ Gans, Andrew (May 17, 2026). "Ragtime Leads 2026 Drama Desk Awards; Read the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Retrieved May 19, 2026.
  32. ^ "Schmigadoon!, Ragtime Win Big at 2026 Outer Critics Circle Awards; Read the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Retrieved May 11, 2026.

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