Marcus Youssef
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[edit]
- ^ a b c "Playwright Marcus Youssef wins $100K Siminovitch Prize". CBC News, November 6, 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mark Medley, "Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2015.
- ^ "Montreal film-makers win Chalmers Awards". Montreal Gazette, September 23, 1997.
- ^ Kamal Al-Solaylee, "The world according to Ali and Ali". The Globe and Mail, February 23, 2004.
- ^ Peter Birnie, "Adrift on the Nile sails into a different harbour". Vancouver Sun, February 1, 2007.
- ^ Robert Cushman, "It's mind over meta; Hard Times, Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings and [title of show]". National Post, October 9, 2010.
- ^ Kevin Prokosh, "Lovers in a dangerous time". Winnipeg Free Press, October 9, 2014.
- ^ 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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