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Biography
Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright and TV writer whose work for the stage has been widely produced in Canada as well as around the world. Hannah been honoured with numerous awards, including the Trillium Book Award, both the Herald Angel and a Scotsburn Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival, the Nova Scotia MasterWorks Award, and the prestigious Windham- Campbell Prize administered by Yale. She's been a finalist for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and twice for the Governor General's Award. Hannah's music-theatre hybrid Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan) played at both 59E59 Theatres off-Broadway and at the International Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it garnered a landslide of a critical praise, including more than fifty four-and-five-star reviews, becoming a TimeOut and New York Times Critic's Pick and receiving six Drama Desk Award nominations. Before the pandemic hit, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story had been touring internationally for two years. Hannah's other writing for the stage includes Post-Democracy, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, East of Berlin, Infinity, Bunny, What a Young Wife Ought to Know, The Russian Play, This is War, Little One and a confessional work for the stage, Secret Life of a Mother, co-created by Ann-Marie Kerr and Maev Beaty. Hannah is playwright-in-residence at Canada's leading new works theatre, Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.
OPERA America/Opera.ca Grants Awarded
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| GRANT NAME | YEAR | Opera Grants for Women Composers: Commissioning Grants | 2019 |
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