Irene Sankoff and David Hein are Canadian husband-and-wife songwriting duo. Their first musical, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, garnered buzz at Toronto’s Fringe art festival in 2009. Sankoff and Hein are best known for the 2015 musical Come From Away, which tells the tale of a small town in Newfoundland, Canada that welcomes thousands of people displaced by the 9/11 attacks. The musical was nominated for 7 Tony awards, including Best Musical, and won for Best Direction.