UFV Theatre presents a guest talk with the 2019 Ashland Endowment visiting artist, Marcus Youssef of Neworld Theatre.
Marcus is one of Canada’s best-known contemporary playwrights. His plays have been produced in dozens of theatres in 15 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, from Seattle to New York to Reykjavik, London, Hong Kong, and Berlin. He is the recipient of Canada’s largest cultural prize, the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize for Theatre, the Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award, the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award, the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, the Seattle Times Footlight award, the Vancouver Critics’ Innovation award (three times), and the Canada Council Staunch Lynton Award for artistic achievement.
Over the years Marcus has also written for a half dozen shows on CBC Radio and Television and a wide variety of Canadian print and web-based publications, with bylines in the Georgia Straight, Vancouver Magazine, This Magazine, Rice Paper, the Tyee, Vanopolis, and Canadian Theatre Review, among others. Marcus is Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre and co-founder of the East Vancouver-based artist-run production studio PL1422. He was the inaugural chair of the city of Vancouver’s Arts and Culture Policy Council, a Canadian Fellow to the International Society for Performing Arts, and co-chair of the Vancouver political party the Coalition of Progressive Electors. He is currently an editorial advisor to Canadian Theatre Review and a consulting advisor for the National Arts Centre English Theatre. He teaches regularly at the National Theatre School of Canada, Studio 58 Langara College, and the University of British Columbia.
Thurs, Feb 14
10:30–11:30 am
D105.
To be followed with a meet & greet lunch: 11:30-noon in D107.
There will also be a free workshop on individual and collaborative creation methods, with Marcus Youssef of Neworld Theatre. The workshop runs from 12-3 pm. There is limited space in this workshop so to signup please email theatre@ufv.ca.
Marcus is a Siminovitch Prize-winning creator and writer of more than a dozen plays that have been produced across the globe; and the artistic Ddirector of Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre.
Thurs, Feb 14
Noon to 3 pm
D105
For more information, contact Karmin Gray at theatre@ufv.ca
02/15/2019