Photo of Hannah Moscovitch by Alejandro Santiago.
Bio
Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed playwright and TV-writer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She 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 CBC. Hannah’s work has been widely produced across Canada and around the world. She is one of Canada’s most produced playwrights.
Hannah has written sixteen plays, including Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and This is War, and she’s been honoured with numerous awards for her stage work, among them Canada’s highest literary honour the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Nova Scotia MasterWorks Arts Award and the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize administered by the Beinecke Library at Yale.
Hannah’s music-theatre hybrid Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan) became a TimeOut and New York Times Critic’s Pick, winning both the Herald Angel and a Scotsman Fringe First at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, receiving six Drama Desk Award nominations in New York, and touring the world since 2017. Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story recently crossed the 400 performances line.
In television, Hannah is the Co-Creator, Executive Producer and Head Writer of Little Bird alongside showrunner Jennifer Podemski, on CTV/Crave and APTN Lumi in Canada and PBS in the USA. Little Bird has garnered a landslide of awards and critical praise, including the Prix Public or Audience Award at the international TV festival, Series Mania, in Lille, France. Most recently, Hannah was Co-Executive Producer on Season One and Season Two of AMC’s hit series Interview With The Vampire.
Published Work
This is War – Playwrights Canada Press
Infinity (with original music by Njo Kong Kie) – Playwrights Canada Press
What a Young Wife Ought to Know – Playwrights Canada Press
Little One and Other Plays – Playwrights Canada Press
Bunny – Playwrights Canada Press
East of Berlin – Playwrights Canada Press
Post-Democracy – Playwrights Canada Press
Secret Life of a Mother (with Maev Beaty and Ann-Marie Kerr) – Playwrights Canada Press
The Russian Pay and Other Short Works – Playwrights Canada Press
The Children’s Republic – Playwrights Canada Press
Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes – Playwrights Canada Press
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan) – Concord Theatricals
Awards
- Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Drama, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (2021)
- Finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play, Secret Life of a Mother (2020)
- Winner of the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best New Canadian Musical, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (2019)
- Nominated for the International Opera Awards World Premiere Category, Sky on Swings (2019)
- Winner of the Nova Scotia MasterWorks Arts Award, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (2018)
- Winner of the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Canadian Play, Bunny (2018)
- Nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Touring Production, What a Young Wife Ought to Know (2018)
- Nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (2018)
- Finalist for the Siminovitch Prize (2017)
- Winner of a Herald Angel at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (2017)
- Winner of a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (2017)
- Finalist for the Nova Scotia MasterWorks Arts Award, What a Young Wife Ought to Know (2016)
- *Winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize, Drama (2016)
- Recipient of the Gascon-Thomas Award for Revitalizing Canadian Theatre (2015)
- Winner of the New York Fringe Festival Overall Excellence Award, Little One (2015)
- Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play, Infinity (2015)
- Finalist for the Siminovitch Prize (2014)
- **Winner of the Trillium Book Award, This is War (2014)
- Winner of the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Canadian Play, This is War (2013)
- Nominated for the Carol Bolt, This is War (2013)
- Nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play, Little One (2013)
- Nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play, The Huron Bride (2010)
- Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Production, The Huron Bride (2010)
- Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play for Young Audiences, In this World (2010)
- Nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, East of Berlin (2010)
- Nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award, East of Berlin (2009)
- Nominated for the Carol Bolt Award, East of Berlin (2009)
- Nominated for The K.M Hunter Artist Award (2009)
- Nominated for The K.M. Hunter Artist Award (2008)
- Nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play, East of Berlin (2008)
- Nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play, Essay (2008)
- Nominated for the Toronto Arts Council Foundation Emerging Artist Award (2007)
- Winner of the SummerWorks Jury Prize for Outstanding New Production, The Russian Play (2006)
- Winner of the SummerWorks Contra Guys Award for Best New Script, Essay (2005)
- *First Canadian Playwright and First Canadian Woman to win the prestigious $150,000 Windham-Campbell
Award, administered by the Beinecke Library at Yale University - **First and only playwright to win the Trillium Award in its thirty-three year history.
