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]

Marcus Youssef
Occupation	Playwright
Nationality	Canadian
Notable awards	Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1997) Siminovitch Prize in Theatre (2017)

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).