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- ↑ Deborah Dundas, "Sheila Heti, Eli Baxter win 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards for fiction and non-fiction". Toronto Star , November 16, 2022.
- ↑ Dana Gee, "Angels in America soars at Jessie Awards; Arts Club Theatre Company big winner at event honouring city's best in stage". Vancouver Sun , June 27, 2017.
- ↑ Barbara Crook, "Notes on writing a musical: Putting New York demons and memories to rest". Vancouver Sun , October 12, 1995.
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- ↑ Rik Jespersen, "Producers seek to draw more to ‘full theatrical experience’". Coast Reporter , September 12, 2019.
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