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Hannah Moscovitch

Playwright

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 2025 her play Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes received a NYC premiere starring Hugh Jackman and Ella Beatty, and directed by Ian Rickson.  It was produced by Audible and Together (a division of Sonia Friedman Productions) at the Minetta Lane Theatre.

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, Two and Three of AMC’s hit series Interview With The Vampire.

 

Works by Hannah Moscovitch

Bunny

Bunny

By Hannah Moscovitch

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East of Berlin

By Hannah Moscovitch

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Infinity

By Hannah Moscovitch

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Little One

By Hannah Moscovitch

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Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story

By Hannah Moscovitch

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Red Like Fruit

By Hannah Moscovitch

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Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

By Hannah Moscovitch

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What a Young Wife Ought to Know

By Hannah Moscovitch

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Published Works

[Moscovitch is] not afraid to plunge right through areas that others might consider poor taste in order to come out the other side in search of a deeper truth.

Variety Magazine

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Canadian playwrights stay true to their roots despite U.S. success

The Globe and Mail interviews busy playwrights Hannah Moscovitch and Jordan Tannahill...

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New York premiere of Hannah Moscovitch’s 'Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes'

Audible Theater to co-produce premiere with cast boasting Ella Beatty and Hugh Jackman...

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