Do You Mind If I Sit Here?

Marcus Youssef is based on unceded Coast Salish Territory, a.k.a. Vancouver, Canada. His fifteen or so plays have been produced in multiple languages in scores of theatres in twenty countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, from Seattle to New York to Reykjavik, London, Venice, Hong Kong, Vienna, Athens, Frankfurt, and Berlin. Talon has published his Adrift, Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, Ali and Ali, Jabber, King Arthur's Night and Peter Panties, Winners and Losers, and the forthcoming The In-Between.

James Long is a director, actor, writer, and teacher whose creative practice occurs in a wide variety of interdisciplinary and collaborative contexts, including as a founding artistic director of Theatre Replacement (2003-2022) and as an independent artist working in live performance, community-engaged practice, and public art. He was co-awarded with Maiko Yamamoto the 2019 Siminovitch Prize, and nominated with Marcus Youssef for a Governor General's Award for Theatre for Winners and Losers (published by Talonbooks).