- Was the daughter of pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch and violinist Daisy Kennedy.
- Her husband, Felix Krish, a pilot with the British Royal Air Force, was killed in a training accident in Canada in 1944. She never remarried.
- Her father, the noted pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch, wanted her to become a musician, but to no avail.
- In 1975, received two Tony Award nominations for "The Misanthrope:" as Best Scenic Designer and as Best Costume Designer.
- She was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on October 10, 2002 for her services to drama.
- World-renowned theater designer.
- During her career, she had as many as five productions running at the same time in London, England. Some of her more notable productions included the Old Vic Company's Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Britten's opera Peter Grimes at Covent Garden, Chekov's Uncle Vanya, and Sheridan's The Critic. She also designed sets and costumes for the English Stratford's 1953 tour of Australia.
- A pioneering figure in 20th-century theatre design, Moiseiwitsch was the founding designer of the Canadian Stratford Festival and its theatre, and designed the interior of St. Catherine's Chapel, Massey College.
- In 2022 Sheffield Theatres named their Studio after her.
- She is also credited for the 2004 Broadway revival of King Lear, in which the scenery was based on her designs for Stratford.
- She also designed the Stage of the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Crucible Theatre, in Sheffield, England, which opened in 1971.
- Between 1935 and 1939 she was designer at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and designed more than 50 productions for it.
- She had to her credit no fewer than five Broadway productions: Uncle Vanya and The Critic in 1946, The Matchmaker in 1955-57, The House of Atreus in 1968, and The Misanthrope in 1975.
- She designed CBC's 1957 film of the Ontario Stratford Festival's Oedipus Rex, Granada Television's 1983 film production of King Lear starring Laurence Olivier.
- Moiseiwitch was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1976.
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