The ethic and practice of collaboration are central to Marcus Youssef’s creative work. His plays and performance events have been performed in every major Canadian city, across North America and Australia, and as part of major European festivals. Youssef has received multiple awards, including Rio-Tinto Alcan Performing Arts, Chalmer’s Canadian Play, Arts Club Silver Commission, Seattle Times Footlight, Vancouver Critics’ Choice Innovation (three times), as well as numerous local Canadian awards and nominations for best new play, production, performance, and director. He has been artistic director of Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre since 2005, where he also co-founded PL1422, a collaboratively managed, six-thousand-square-foot studio and production hub. Youssef teaches regularly at the National Theatre School of Canada and Langara College’s Studio 58, and sits on the advisory board of Canadian Theatre Review. His journalism and fiction are also published and broadcast widely. He lives in East Vancouver with his partner, teacher Amanda Fritzlan, and their sons Oscar and Zak.