About Marcus Youssef
Born 1969. Marcus Youssef is a Canadian artist and playwright.
Marcus Youssef is a Canadian playwright. 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, and the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2015 Governor General's Awards.
He previously won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1997 for A Line in the Sand, a collaboration with Guillermo Verdecchia, and was the winner of the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre in 2017. Adrift on the Nile (2007), Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings (2010), Jabber (2014), King Arthur's Night (2018) and The In-Between (2022).
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Who is Marcus Youssef?
Canadian playwright
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Marcus Youssef was born in 1969.
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Marcus Youssef is an artist and playwright.
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Marcus Youssef is Canadian.
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