Biography

Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright and TV writer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the most produced living playwright in Canada as well as being widely produced internationally. Hannah has been honored with numerous awards for her work, including Canada's highest literary honor the Governor General's Award, and the prestigious international Windham-Campbell Prize administered by the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

Hannah has been described as "Canada's most prominent playwright" by the Globe & Mail, "the dark angel of Canadian theatre" by the Toronto Star, and "the wunderkind of Canadian theatre" by the CBC.

Hannah's music-theatre hybrid Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan) has garnered a landslide of critical praise, including more than fifty four- and five-star reviews, becoming a TimeOut and New York Times Critic's Pick, winning both the Herald Angel and a Scotsburn Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival, receiving six Drama Desk Award nominations in New York, and touring the world since 2017.

Hannah is a playwright-in-residence at Canada's leading new works theatre, Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.
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