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Hannah Moscovitch
Hannah Moscovitch is a 2001 graduate
of the National Theatre School’s acting program, and in that same
year she founded Absit Omen Theatre with her classmate, Michael Rubenfeld.
Hannah began focusing on playwriting in 2002, when her play Cigarettes
and Tricia Truman was staged as part of the Great Canadian Theatre
Company’s FourPlay Series.
Hannah’s other plays include Essay,
which premiered at SummerWorks Festival in 2005, where it won the Contra
Guys Award for Best New Play. The Russian Play also premiered
that year at SummerWorks, where it was awarded the Jury Prize for Best
New Production. Both plays were remounted as part of a double bill at
Factory Theatre in winter 2008. East of Berlin, written while
Hannah was part of the Tarragon Playwrights Unit, premiered at that
theatre in the fall of 2007.
A native of Ottawa, Hannah now lives
in Toronto, where she is playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre.
She has been commissioned to create new works for the stage with a number
of Canada’s most exciting established and experimental theatre companies,
including Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg, Volcano Theatre in Toronto,
and 2b theatre company in Halifax. Hannah is a member of the Playwrights
Guild of Canada.
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