#90 - Mona Mansour and Emily Zemba

#90 - Mona Mansour and Emily Zemba

From When Lightning Strikes! by Broadway Podcast Network

March 25, 2026 · 38 min

About this episode

Mona Mansour and Emily Zemba discuss their new play Entangled and the collaborative process behind it.

Prolific playwrights Mona Mansour and Emily Zemba recently debuted Entangled: 12 Scenes in a Circle K off the I-40 in New Mexico. The play, which was directed by Scott Ilingworth, premiered at HERE Arts Center and is presented by SOCIETY Theatre Company. SOCIETY is a collective of theatre makers creating new research-driven, radically collaborative works. This episode was recorded March 23, 2026. Read the New York Times piece about quantum entanglement, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/science/black-holes-cosmology-hologram.html Dan Hooper's podcast that was mentioned is Why This Universe? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Guests: Mona Mansour, Emily Zemba

Topics covered

  • playwriting
  • theatre
  • collaboration
  • quantum entanglement
  • new works
  • interviews

Keywords

  • Mona Mansour
  • Emily Zemba
  • Entangled
  • theatre
  • playwrights
  • collaboration
  • quantum entanglement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SOCIETY Theatre Company, New York Times, Why This Universe?

Books & works: Entangled: 12 Scenes in a Circle K

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