Who Are the Playwrights

Tony Meneses

Resident Playwright

2025 — 2032

Tony Meneses is a proud immigrant born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in Albuquerque and Dallas. Two River Theater: Guadalupe in the Guest RoomThe Women of PadillaThe HombresA Thousand Maids. The Denver Center: twenty50. The Old Globe: El Borracho. He is an alum of the Soho Rep. Writer/Director Lab, Ars Nova Play Group, Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation, The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, and Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood. His work has been previously developed at the Lark Play Development Center Playwrights’ Week, Berkeley Rep’s The Ground Floor, The Denver Center’s Colorado New Play Summit, The Old Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival (2020, 2025), South Coast Rep’s Pacific Playwrights Festival and New SCRipt Series, TheatreSquared’s Arkansas New Play Festival, Two River Theater's Crossing Borders Festival (2018, 2023, 2025), and The 2025 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. He is a two-time recipient of The Kennedy Center Latino Playwriting Award, is published by Dramatists Play Service and Theatrical Rights Worldwide, and has been previously commissioned by The Denver Center, Two River Theater, South Coast Rep, The Old Globe, and The Juilliard School. Education: The University of Texas at Austin, Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Juilliard.