Mark Leiren-Young

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Full Name	Mark Leiren-Young
Occupation	Playwright
Date Of Birth	Sep 4, 1962(1962-09-04)
Age	62
Birthplace	Vancouver
Country	Canada
Birth City	British Columbia
Horoscope	Virgo

Mark Leiren-Young Biography

Mark Leiren-Young is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on September 4, 1962 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Mark Leiren Young (born 1962) is a Canadian playwright journalist, author screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor. He is a resident of Victoria, British Columbia.

20 years on from his experience working at The Williams Lake Tribune, Leiren- Young wrote an entertaining memoir, Never Shoot A Stampede Queen (Heritage House 2009) that was awarded the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Leiren-Young adapts the memoir for stage, and it premiered by The Western Canada Theatre company in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada in 2013. The second production premiered on the Vancouver’s Granville Island Stage in May 2013. The book was adapted to the stage by actress Leiren Young and was directed and dramaturized with TJ Dawe. The latest memoir of his, Free Magic Secrets Revealed (Harbour Publishing 2013) is the tale of his teenage mishaps performing a shaky magic show. Leiren-Young is in the process of making both of his memoirs into films.

Leiren-Young won the 2017 Writers Guild of Canada Award for Best Documentary for his movie, “The Hundred-Year-Old Whale.” He has received three other Writers Guild of Canada nominations for his work in radio and film. He received the 2017 Bron Iris Award in 2017 for his “commitment to the promotion of female creators” in film and television. He won the 2009 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for his comic memoir, “Never Shoot a Stampede Queen.” Leiren-Young was the 1993 recipient of a National Magazine award for his Theatrum column and has received two Western Magazine Awards, the latest presented in 2013.

Leiren-Young’s plays have been produced in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia. His work has been translated into French, Czech and Danish. In 2017 his play Bar Mitzvah Boy was the winner of the Jewish Playwriting Contest of the Jewish Plays Project. The play has been produced in Canada and the U.S. and is being published in 2020 by Playwright’s Canada Press. His award-winning Shylock (Anvil Press, 1996), about the tensions surrounding theatre’s most famous Jewish character. Shylock has been produced around the world. Leiren- Young frequently collaborated with director John Juliani. The work they developed together included Articles of Faith (Anvil Press, 2001), about the Anglican church’s internal struggle over the issue of same sex marriage and Leiren-Young’s 1991 radio drama, Dim Sum Diaries, which received international recognition when it debuted on CBC Radio’s Morningside. Leiren-Young has frequently written for and about young audiences. His Theatre for Young Audiences scripts include Basically Good Kids (about teens caught up in a riot) and Jim (a solo show about a teen runaway obsessed with The Doors frontman Jim Morrison.

Leiren-Young is an environmentalist who is passionate. The host of the Skaana podcast, where he speaks with experts such as Paul Watson, David Suzuki and Elizabeth May about orcas, orcas, and the marine environment. He has spoken and written about the possibility that Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline could cause the disappearance of the endangered Southern killer whales, which are resident to the region. He was the host of a podcast on Vancouver’s own independent news website The Tyee, where he frequently addressed issues that confront the old growth forests of British Columbia. The Tyee interviews served as the basis for his book The Green Chain: Nothing is Ever Cut (Heritage House 2009) The book analyzes the industry of logging. The book is described by The National Post as “Canada’s go to guy for dolphins, whales and trees”, Leiren-Young is also referred to as “Canada’s greenest writer”. Most of his projects have an environmental theme including his short film that won awards, The Green Film, as well as his feature-length film The Green Chain, which is starring Tricia Helfer. As part of the duo comedy “Local Anxiety” with Kevin Crofton Leiren-Young also wrote and co-starred with Kevin Crofton in the EarthVision award-winning TV show, Greenpieces The World’s first Eco- Comedy. He released his 2009 album Greenpieces and the songs from the album often air in CBC Radio. CBC Radio. He also co-authored This Crazy Time: Living the Environmental Challenge (Knopf Canada, 2012) alongside controversial Canadian environmentalist Tzeporah Berman. In 2012, Leiren Young debuted”Greener Than Thou, a comic autobiographical monologue that traces the path through “going green”.

Mark Leiren-Young Net Worth

Mark Leiren-Young is one of the richest Playwright from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Leiren-Young 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Leiren-Young’s feature and news writing, humour reviews, as well as columns have been published in numerous magazines in Canada as well as in the United States, including Time, Maclean’s, and The Utne Reader. He also writes the theatre column on behalf of The Vancouver Sun. He also contributes for The Georgia Straight, where his writing has been going on from the early 1980s. He has been covering The Toronto International Film Festival for The Georgia Straight for the last ten years. In the autumn of 2014, Leiren-Young was named as editor at Reel West Magazine, a publication that focuses exclusively on Western Canadian film industry. Leiren-Young was also appointed an University of Victoria’s Harvey Stevenson Southam Lecturer in Journalism and Nonfiction for the Department of Writing, the first alumnus of the university to hold this post.

Leiren Young was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He attended UBC, the University of British Columbia where He wrote extensively in The Ubyssey student newspaper. The first stage production he wrote, “The Initiation,” that he directed and wrote during his time as being a UBC student is part of the hilarious autobiography “Free Magic Secrets Revealed.” He earned his Master in Fine Arts in Theatre and Creative Writing at the University of Victoria and was awarded the degree with distinction in 1985. Leiren-Young’s first journalism position full-time was with The Williams Lake Tribune, the newspaper of Williams Lake, British Columbia. He quit Williams Lake to create and produce “Expose: Sometimes the World’s Fair, Sometimes it Ain’t” an improvised comedy of Expo 86 that played for some time in the Vancouver Firehall Theatre (now the Firehalls Arts Centre).

In October 2014, Leiren-Young wrote the article “Moby Doll” for The Walrus. The Walrus feature tells the story of the first killer whale displayed in captivity, Moby Doll, who was harpooned in the summer of 1964 off the coast of British Columbia’s Saturna Island. Moby Doll surived just eighty-seven days in a waterfront pen but, during that time, changed the world’s attituded towards orcas. The Walrus article was a finalist for the 2015 National Magazine Awards. 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. The documentary won the 2014 Jack Webster Award for Best Feature Story in radio for the broadcast. In 2016, the book The Killer Whale Who Changed the World was published. It spent four weeks on the Maclean’s bestseller list and was long-listed for the 2017 RBC Taylor Prize, and short- listed for the Hubert Evans Prize. It was the winner of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada award for the best “general interest” book.

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