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Somerville MA United States
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Bystander 9/11 really started with a mass email I sent out once I had gotten to safety. The World Trade Center was my subway stop, I had spent the previous day working at One Liberty, literally in the shadow of the towers. By the time I had gotten to a computer both towers had fallen and there were endless messages seeing if I were ok. I responded with what had been my story so far. The narrative in that email was expanded and dramatized to become a documentary play. I've seen the play done several times. I find it hard to watch. It's one man's account of what New York was like at that particular historic moment. I dealt with the subject of 9/11 in some of my other work, but this was my first and only documentary.
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Meron Langsner was one of three playwrights in the country selected for the pilot year of the National New Play Network Emerging Writers Residencies, fulfilling his residency at the New Repertory Theatre in MA. His work has been performed around the country and overseas, and developed by the Lark New Play Development Center, New Repertory Theatre, the Last Frontier Theatre Conference (where he later returned as a featured artist), Playwrights Commons, and the New England Region Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Publishers of his plays include Smith & Kraus, Applause, YouthPLAYS, NorthNorthwest, JAC, and Lamia Ink. Meron holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA in Playwriting from Brandeis University, and will be receiving a PhD in Drama from Tufts University in August 2011.