news | Tuesday November 7, 2017

Marcus Youssef wins the Siminovitch Prize!

Three cheers for Marcus Youssef, winner of Canada’s largest theatre award, the Siminovitch Prize!

The Siminovitch Prize awards its winner a whopping $100,000, rotating over a three-year cycle to alternate honouring professional directors, playwrights, and designers (in addition to the $5,000 received by each finalist). Finalists celebrate with a reception on October 16 at University of Toronto Hart House, and the 2017 Siminovitch Prize was awarded at a ceremony last evening at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

Talon playwright Marcus Youssef is also an actor and co-artistic director of Neworld Theatre. 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.

We heartily congratulate you, Marcus!