Michael Nathanson is a Canadian playwright and theatre director, who was a shortlisted nominee for the

Governor General's Award for English-language drama The Governor General's Award for English-language drama honours excellence in Canadian English-language playwriting. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama was divided. Because the awar ...

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2009 Governor General's Awards The shortlisted nominees for the 2009 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 14, and winning titles were announced on November 17 (see 2009 in poetry).Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career ...

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Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...

. He served as artistic director of the

Winnipeg Jewish Theatre Winnipeg Jewish Theatre is a theatre based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 1987 and is the only professional theatre in Canada dedicated to Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious ...

from 2006 to 2014."It’s lights out at Winnipeg Jewish Theatre"
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Canadian Jewish News The Canadian Jewish News is a non-profit, national, English-language digital-first media organization that serves Canada‘s Jewish community. A national edition of the newspaper was published for 60 years in Toronto. A weekly Montreal edition in ...

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21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights Writers from Winnipeg Jewish Canadian writers Canadian theatre directors Living people Canadian male dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian male writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-playwright-stub