Editing Neworld Theatre (section)

=== Marcus Youssef- Artistic Director ===
"Marcus' plays include Winners and Losers (with James Long), How My Love Has Affected You, the war-on-terror satires Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil and Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings (with Guillermo Verdecchia and Camyar Chai), Everyone (Unmet Obligation), Adrift, 3299: Forms in Order, Peter Panties (with Niall McNeil), Apathy House and A Line in the Sand (with Guillermo Verdecchia), as well as installation performance events for HIVE's I and II, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. They have been presented or produced across North America, Australia and Europe, translated into Czech and Italian, and are published by Talonbooks and Playwrights Canada Press. Awards: Alcan Performing Arts, Chalmer's Canadian Play, Arts Club Silver Commission, Seattle Times Footlight, Vancouver Sun Critics' Choice Innovation, as well as numerous Jessie (Vancouver), Masque (Montreal) and Dora (Toronto) awards and nominations. He teaches and lectures across Canada, and in 04/05, he was an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Community Development at Concordia University in Montreal. Marcus currently sits on the advisory board of the Canadian Theatre Review, is an active advocate for the centrality of culture to Vancouver's urban future, and in 2009 co-founded PL 1422, a co-operative 6,000 sq. foot rehearsal and production centre in East Van. He is artistic director of Neworld Theatre, western artistic associate of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Ottawa and on faculty at Capilano University. Marcus lives in the Commercial Drive area with his partner, Amanda and their sons Oscar and Zak." [http://www.neworldtheatre.com/company-people.html]