Hannah Moscovitch was born on June 5,1978 and is a Canadian playwright who rose to national prominence in the 2000s.
12 Facts About Hannah Moscovitch
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Hannah Moscovitch's father, Allan Moscovitch, is a social policy professor at Carleton University.
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Hannah Moscovitch was "raised as an atheist", and has said that there is "implicitly Jewish sensibility" to her plays.
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Hannah Moscovitch studied at the National Theatre School in the acting stream.
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Hannah Moscovitch gained considerable notice for two short plays written for Toronto's SummerWorks.
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Hannah Moscovitch collaborated with Lee Smolin to lend verisimilitude to some of the theoretical ideas.
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Hannah Moscovitch's plays have been widely produced across Canada, including at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, Ottawa's Great Canadian Theatre Company, The National Arts Centre, Toronto's Factory Theatre, Edmonton's Theatre Network, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, Vancouver's Firehall Arts Centre, the Alberta Theatre Projects, and Montreal's Imago Theatre.
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Hannah Moscovitch is currently playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre and was previously a contributing writer to the CBC radio drama series Afghanada.
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Hannah Moscovitch won Dora Mavor Moore Awards for In This World and "Infinity".
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Hannah Moscovitch won both the Trillium Book Award and Toronto Critic's Awards in 2014 for This Is War.
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Hannah Moscovitch has won the Nova Scotia Masterworks Award for "Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story", and the SummerWorks Prize for Best Production for The Russian Play.
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Award nominations received by Hannah Moscovitch include the Siminovitch Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Carol Bolt Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the KM Hunter Award and the Toronto Arts Council Foundation Emerging Artist Award.