Mark Leiren-Young was born on September 4,1962 and is a Canadian playwright, author, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker, and performer.
23 Facts About Mark Leiren-Young
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Mark Leiren-Young spent two years at the University of British Columbia where he wrote extensively for The Ubyssey student newspaper.
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Mark Leiren-Young completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and Creative Writing at the University of Victoria and graduated with distinction in 1985.
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Mark Leiren-Young left Williams Lake to write and direct Expose: Sometimes the World's Fair, Sometimes it Ain't a comedy revue about Expo 86 that played for several months at Vancouver's Firehall Theatre, and the 1 act play Escape From Fantasy Gardens, a play about then Premier Bill Vander Zalm.
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Mark Leiren-Young has extensive television writing credits, with over 100 hours of produced work.
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Mark Leiren-Young has written for numerous TV shows including PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal and Blood Ties.
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Mark Leiren-Young's plays have been produced in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia.
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Mark Leiren-Young's work has been translated into French, Czech and Danish.
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Mark Leiren-Young's award-winning Shylock, about the tensions surrounding theatre's most famous Jewish character.
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Twenty years after his stint at The Williams Lake Tribune, Mark Leiren-Young turned his experiences into a comic memoir, Never Shoot A Stampede Queen, which won the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.
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Mark Leiren-Young adapted the memoir for stage, where it received its world premiere with the Western Canada Theatre company in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada in 2013.
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The book was adapted for the stage by Mark Leiren-Young and directed and dramaturged by TJ Dawe.
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Mark Leiren-Young writes a theatre column for The Vancouver Sun.
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Mark Leiren-Young has covered the Toronto International Film Festival for The Georgia Straight for the past ten years.
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Mark Leiren-Young became the University of Victoria's 2014 Harvey Stevenson Southam Lecturer in Journalism and Nonfiction for the Department of Writing, the first alumnus to hold this position.
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Mark Leiren-Young has written and spoken about how Canada's Trans Mountain Pipeline could lead to the extinction of the endangered Southern resident killer whales.
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Mark Leiren-Young hosted a podcast for Vancouver's independent online news site The Tyee, where he often addressed issues facing British Columbia's old growth forests.
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Mark Leiren-Young released the 2009 CD Greenpieces, and cuts from the satirical album are often featured on CBC Radio.
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Mark Leiren-Young coauthored This Crazy Time: Living our Environmental Challenge with controversial Canadian environmentalist, Tzeporah Berman.
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In 2012, Mark Leiren-Young debuted Greener Than Thou, a comic, autobiographical monologue detailing the journey of "going green".
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In October 2014, Mark Leiren-Young wrote the article "Moby Doll" for The Walrus.
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Mark Leiren-Young wrote Moby Doll: The Whale that Changed the World, which aired as a radio broadcast November 7,2014 on CBC Radio's Ideas with Paul Kennedy.
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Mark Leiren-Young received the 2017 Bron Iris Award in 2017 for his "commitment to the promotion of female creators" in film and television.