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Lois Fine is a Canadian playwright. She is most noted for her play Freda and Jem's Best of the Week, which premiered at Buddies in Bad Times in 2014 [1] and garnered a Lambda Literary Award nomination in the Drama category at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017. [2]
The play, about a longtime lesbian couple's divorce, was inspired in part by the end of Fine's own relationship with Rachel Epstein. [3]
Her other plays have included Dany's Gift and Body and Soul.
Fine is Jewish. [4]
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