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Kate Hennig is a Canadian actress and playwright,[1] currently the associate artistic director of the Shaw Festival.[2]

She was a shortlisted Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Actress in a Play (Large Theatre) in 2003 for The Danish Play,[3] and won the Dora for Best Actress in a Musical in 2011 for Billy Elliot.[4] Although predominantly a stage actress, she also received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for her performance in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould,[5] and has appeared in the films Mrs. Winterbourne and The Claim, and the television series Bomb Girls, Saving Hope and L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.

As a playwright, she has written the plays The Last Wife and The Virgin Trial.[6] She was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2017 Governor General's Awards for The Virgin Trial.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Toronto native Kate Hennig bringing 'Billy Elliot' role to home city". Canadian Press, August 18, 2010.
  2. ^ "Kate Hennig becomes associate artistic director of Shaw Festival". Toronto Star, May 17, 2017.
  3. ^ "Divining Dora: Our theatre critic assesses the shoo-ins and ruins for this year's awards". National Post, June 21, 2003.
  4. ^ "Blasted picks up five Dora Awards". Toronto Star, June 28, 2011.
  5. ^ "Genies telecast from Montreal; Francois Girard's Gould pic garners seven nominations". Montreal Gazette, October 20, 1993.
  6. ^ "A gripping, complex Tudor queen whodunit". Toronto Star, June 30, 2017.
  7. ^ "Finalists named for 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards". Montreal Gazette, October 4, 2017.


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