Marcus Youssef

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Marcus Youssef
OccupationPlaywright
NationalityCanadian
Notable awards Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1997)
Siminovitch Prize in Theatre (2017)

Marcus Youssef is a Canadian playwright. [1] He is most noted for the play Winners and Losers, a collaboration with James Long which was shortlisted for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Original Play, General Theatre in 2014, [2] and the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2015 Governor General's Awards. [3]

He previously won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1997 for A Line in the Sand, a collaboration with Guillermo Verdecchia, [4] and was the winner of the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre in 2017. [1]

Born to Egyptian immigrant parents and raised in Montreal, Quebec, he is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he has been artistic director of Neworld Theatre, co-founded the PL 1422 artist-run centre, and has been an adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia. [1] His other plays have included The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the Axes of Evil (2004), [5] Adrift on the Nile (2007), [6] Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings (2010), [7] Jabber (2014), [8] King Arthur's Night (2018) [9] and The In-Between (2022).

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Playwright Marcus Youssef wins $100K Siminovitch Prize". CBC News, November 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Robert Cushman, "Best in shows; The Doras have a weak field to choose from this year, but they've chosen well". National Post , June 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ Mark Medley, "Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail , October 7, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Montreal film-makers win Chalmers Awards". Montreal Gazette , September 23, 1997.
  5. ↑ Kamal Al-Solaylee, "The world according to Ali and Ali". The Globe and Mail , February 23, 2004.
  6. ↑ Peter Birnie, "Adrift on the Nile sails into a different harbour". Vancouver Sun , February 1, 2007.
  7. ↑ Robert Cushman, "It's mind over meta; Hard Times, Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings and [title of show]". National Post , October 9, 2010.
  8. ↑ Kevin Prokosh, "Lovers in a dangerous time". Winnipeg Free Press , October 9, 2014.
  9. ↑ Kathleen Oliver, "Enchanting images, sounds, and words wash over you in King Arthur’s Night". The Georgia Straight , February 1, 2018.


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