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Irene Sankoff

Shows · Irene Sankoff

ComposerLyricistBook Writer

Co-creator of Come From Away.

Also credited on1 work

Come from Away

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In the literature1 passages

  • The Canadian Music Theatre Project , like Denmark’s Uterus workshop, is attached to an established musical theatre school, in this case Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Their first two projects, Come from Away by David Hein and Irene Sankoff , and Central Park Tango by Robert Gontier and Nicky Phillips were showcased at Toronto’s Pa…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — composer, lyricist, book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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