Authors

Hannah Moscovitch

Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright, TV writer, and librettist whose work has been widely produced in Canada and around the world.

Recent stage work includes The Children's Republic, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan).

She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Trillium Book Award, the Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award, the Scotsman Fringe First and the Herald Angel Awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize administered by Yale University. She has been nominated for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Drama Desk Award, Canada's Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, and the Governor General's Literary Award.

She is a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
The Children's Republic
Secret Life of a Mother

Nick Moseley

Nick Moseley worked as an actor before teaching drama in secondary school, and then in drama schools, first at Italia Conti and then at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he was Principal Lecturer in Acting for fifteen years.

He is the author of several books: Acting and Reacting: Tools for the Modern Actor; Meisner in Practice: A Guide for Actors, Directors and Teachers; Actioning and How to Do It; and Getting into Drama School: The Compact Guide, all published by Nick Hern Books.

Nick Moseley
Acting and Reacting
Meisner in Practice
Actioning - and How to Do It
Getting into Drama School: The Compact Guide
Getting into Drama School: The Compact Guide

Itamar Moses

Itamar Moses is an American playwright, author, and television writer. His plays include Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us, Yellowjackets and Completeness. He won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for The Band's Visit.

The Band's Visit

Chloë Moss

Chloë Moss is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include: Corrina, Corrina (Headlong & Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, 2022); Run Sister Run (Paines Plough, Soho Theatre & Sheffield Theatres, 2020); The Gatekeeper (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2012); Fatal Light (part of Clean Break & Soho Theatre's Charged season, 2010); This Wide Night (Clean Break and Soho Theatre, 2008; winner of the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn prize); The Way Home (Everyman, Liverpool, 2006); Christmas is Miles Away (Royal Exchange, Manchester, 2005; Bush Theatre, London, 2006) and How Love Is Spelt (Bush Theatre, London, 2004).

She has also written extensively for television. Credits include Six Wives (BBC One), Dickensian (BBC One), New Tricks (BBC One), The Smoke (Sky1) and Prisoners' Wives (BBC One).

Chloë Moss
This Wide Night
Charged
How Love Is Spelt
Christmas is Miles Away
The Way Home
Fatal Light
The Gatekeeper
Run Sister Run
Corrina, Corrina

Robert Moss

Robert Moss is an American theatre director and founder of Playwrights Horizons.

Staging Story: Five Fundamentals for the Beginning Stage Director

Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse is an author and broadcaster. Her novels include The Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel), The Winter Ghosts, The Burning Chambers and The City of Tears. She has adapted her own novel, The Taxidermist's Daughter, for the stage (Chichester Festival Theatre, 2022).

Her non-fiction includes Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Build the World.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and founder of the #WomanInHistory campaign. In 1996 she co-founded the annual Women's Prize for Fiction (originally known as the Orange Prize for Fiction).

100 Great Plays for Women
The Taxidermist's Daughter

Wajdi Mouawad

Wajdi Mouawad is a Lebanese-Canadian writer, actor and director. He is known in Canadian and French theatre for politically engaged works such as his 2003 play Scorched (French title Incendies).

He was born in Lebanon in 1968, but fled the war-torn country with his family, living in Paris for a few years before settling in Montreal. In 1991, shortly after graduating from the National Theatre School, he embarked on a career as an actor, writer, director, and producer.

His plays include: Birds of a Kind (Governor General's Literary Award, 2019); Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons'; Tideline; and Scorched (which was adapted into the Academy Award-nominated film Incendies.

From 2000–2004, he was the artistic director of Montreal's Théâtre de Quat'Sous. In 2005 he founded two companies specializing in the development of new work: Abé carré cé carré in Canada (with Emmanuel Schwartz), and Au carré de l'hypoténuse in France.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours for his writing and directing, including the 2000 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, the 2002 Chevalier de l'Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres (France) and the 2004 Prix de la Francophonie. He is Artistic Director of the National Arts Centre French Theatre.

Scorched
Birds of a Kind

Stephen Mulrine

Stephen Mulrine (1937–2020) was a Glasgow-born poet and playwright who wrote extensively for radio and television, and published many translations, including English translations of plays in Russian by Chekhov, Gogol and Gorky, as well as translations of plays by Ibsen, Molière, Pirandello, Strindberg and others.

Ivanov
Chekhov on Theatre
An Enemy of the People
Six Characters in Search of an Author
The Government Inspector
The Seagull
Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Children of the Sun
Uncle Vanya
The Marriage of Figaro
The Wild Duck