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In early August, 2006, playwright Hannah Moscovitch and multihyphenate theatre artist Mary Vingoe were standing in a parking lot near Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. They were soaked, huddling under umbrellas as a late summer storm hurtled through the city.

Mary Vingoe.

Ms. Moscovitch, not yet one of the most famous playwrights in Canada, couldn’t believe her ears. Surely, she’d misheard: Ms. Vingoe was going to program Ms. Moscovitch’s The Russian Play in a national festival?

“I couldn’t believe she meant it,” said Ms. Moscovitch, who added that prior to Ms. Vingoe’s support, she had considered abandoning the theatre industry entirely to attend law school. “But within a few weeks, I got an official letter from Magnetic North Theatre Festival. I was a young artist who h

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