Nick Green is a

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actor and playwright. He won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in 2017 for his play ''Body Politic'', a dramatization of the history of the Canadian

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newsmagazine '' The Body Politic''. He is also the recipient of an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award, the Tom Hendry Award and BroadwayWorld.com Award. In 2020, after a production of his newest play was cancelled due to the

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, Green launched Social Distancing Festival, a website where arts professionals could share works online. In 2023 his play ''Casey and Diana'', a dramatization of the 1991 visit of

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, to Casey House, Toronto's

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hospice, premiered at the

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under the direction of Andrew Kushnir.

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Social Distancing Festival
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