news | Tuesday September 26, 2017

Marcus Youssef nominated for Siminovitch Prize!

Talon playwright Marcus Youssef is up for Canada’s largest theatre award, the Siminovitch Prize. Congratulations, Marcus!

The Siminovitch Prize awards its winner a whopping $100,000, rotating over a three-year cycle to alternate honouring professional directors, playwrights, and designers. Finalists get $5,000. Finalists celebrate with a reception on October 16 at University of Toronto Hart House, and the final 2017 Siminovitch Prize will be awarded at a ceremony on November 6 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

Youssef is also an actor and co-artistic director of Neworld Theatre, but plays he’s written and cowritten include Jabber, A Line in the Sand, Adrift, two Ali & Ali plays, and Winners and Losers (one of Neworld’s longest-running and most successful pieces), King Arthur’s Night and Peter Panties (both forthcoming from Talon in Spring 2018). His works have won numerous Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards and Dora Mavor Moore Awards, and they’ve been performed across North America, Australia, and Europe.

Read more in the Georgia Straight.