Hanna Novak is a New York City-based playwright, director, and producer originally from Toronto. Her plays include Left Out (Semi-finalist, O’Neill NPC), I Wanna Destroy You (The Performing Garage) and The Opera is Always on the Table (New Ohio Ice Factory, co-directed with Tina Satter). Hanna is a member of EST/Youngblood, a New Georges affiliated artist, and an alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers Group. Her plays have been developed with Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Hearth, and Amanda+James. Hanna holds an MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College, where she studied with Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Hanna also works as a producer across theater and experimental performance, and she is the Producing Director for the theater company Elevator Repair Service. Recent producing credits include Alex Tatarsky’s MATERIAL as part of the 2024 Whitney Biennial and Gatz at The Public.

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