January 28, 2020 at 12:30 – 1:30pm 

Marcus Yousseff   

Orion Visiting Playwright in the Department of Writing 

The Drama of Working Across Difference

Actor and playwright Marcus Youssef was born in 1969 in Montreal to an Egyptian father and Anglo-American mother. He graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada (Acting, 1992) and the University of British Columbia (M.F.A., 2002). Marcus Youssef has written and co-written some of Canada’s best-known theatrical investigations of otherness and difference, including Winners and Losers, King Arthur’s Night, Leftovers, How Has My Love Affected You? and A Line in the Sand. His works have been performed across North America, Australia and Europe, and published by Talonbooks and Playwrights Canada Press. He has recived a Governor General’s Literary nomination, and numerous Jessie Richardson Awards, Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Montreal English Theatre Awards and nominations. Marcus is Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre, and co-founder of the artist-run production centre, PL1422. In 2016 and 2017 he was Senior Playwright-in-Residence at the Banff Playwrights Colony.

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The Orion Lecture Series in Fine Arts is presented through the generous support of the Orion Fund in Fine Arts, the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria.