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- ↑ "RBC Emerging Playwright Award Submission". Playwrights Guild of Canada. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
- ↑ "RBC Emerging Playwright Award Past Recipients". Playwrights Guild of Canada. Retrieved 2023-10-24.
- ↑ "Winners Announced for Playwrights Guild of Canada's 2017 Tom Hendry Awards". Broadway World. October 30, 2017.
- ↑ "News (National): Playwrights Guild of Canada Announces the Winners of the 2019 Tom Hendry Awards". Theatre Alberta, October 29, 2019.
- ↑ "Makram Ayache". Toronto Metropolitan University Asian Heritage in Canada.
- ↑ "2024 Tom Hendry Awards Recipients". Playwrights Guild of Canada. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
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