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.
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