{"id":129078,"date":"2017-11-07T02:43:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T07:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=129078"},"modified":"2017-11-07T02:43:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T07:43:04","slug":"playwright-marcus-youssef-wins-siminovitch-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/07\/playwright-marcus-youssef-wins-siminovitch-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Playwright Marcus Youssef wins Siminovitch Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Playwright Marcus Youssef was announced Monday as this year’s winner of the Siminovitch Prize, honouring a career that includes writing some of \u201cCanada’s best-known theatrical investigations of otherness and difference.\u201d (Photo<\/a>: marcusyoussef\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OTTAWA \u2014 Playwright Marcus Youssef was announced Monday as this year’s winner of the Siminovitch Prize, honouring a career that includes writing some of \u201cCanada’s best-known theatrical investigations of otherness and difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Siminovitch Prize rotates on a three-year cycle, recognizing theatre professionals in the alternating fields of design, direction and playwriting.<\/p>\n

The winner gets $75,000 and can choose a protege to receive $25,000.<\/p>\n

Work by Youssef, who is artistic director of Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre, includes \u201cKing Arthur’s Night,\u201d which was recently staged at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre.<\/p>\n

Youssef chose Christine Quintana as his protege, who is co-artistic producer of Vancouver-based indie theatre company Delinquent Theatre.<\/p>\n

The other nominees for this year’s prize were Evelyne de la Cheneliere, Hannah Moscovitch and Donna-Michelle St. Bernard.<\/p>\n

Last year’s award went to director Nadia Ross, while protege prizes went to Sarah Conn and Shaista Latif.<\/p>\n

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