About the Author:
Writer and performer Marcus Youssef is the associate artistic producer at Vancouver’s NeWorld Theatre. A graduate of both the National Theatre School (Acting, 1992) and the University of British Columbia (M.F.A., 2002), Youssef is a regular contributor of drama, commentary, and documentary to numerous programs on the CBC network. He also writes regularly for publications such as Vancouver Magazine, Georgia Straight, Ricepaper, and This Magazine. For many years, Youssef has also dedicated himself to numerous community-based advocacy programs that aim at using writing and/or theater as a tool for procuring political and social change. He co-founded CRANK Magazine with Matt Hern and Rich Lawley as well as the Reclaiming Project a nationally recognized, immigrant-centered oral history program with Mercedes Baines.
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Dennis Foon is a Detroit-born playwright, novelist, producer, and screenwriter. He was the founder and artistic director, from 1974 to 1986, of Vancouver’s Green Thumb Theatre, a company that soon evolved into a cutting edge theatre with an award-winning repertory of plays about the reality of young people and the dilemmas they face. It was with Green Thumb that Foon began to synthesize his early experiences as a child and teen in Detroit. Since leaving Green Thumb in 1987 to devote his energies to his own projects, he continued to direct plays and turned his attention to screenwriting, including the 1995 film Little Criminals, which was acclaimed worldwide.
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