Mark Leiren-Young
| Mark Leiren-Young | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Mark Leiren-Young September 4, 1962 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer and performer |
| Notable work | Never Shoot a Stampede Queen, The Green Chain, Shylock, Free Magic Secrets Revealed |
| Website | leiren-young |
Mark Leiren-Young (born 1962) is a Canadian journalist, screenwriter, playwright, and occasional performer in the comedy duo Local Anxiety. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Mark Leiren-Young was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and Creative Writing from the University of Victoria and graduated with distinction in 1985. Leiren-Young's first full-time journalism job was at The Williams Lake Tribune, a small newspaper in Williams Lake, British Columbia. In the late 1980s, he was known as an active theatre writer and critic in Canada.
Leiren-Young's news and feature writing, humour pieces, reviews, and columns have appeared in a host of publications in Canada and the United States, including Time, Maclean's, and The Utne Reader. He writes a theatre column for The Vancouver Sun. He's a contributor to The Georgia Straight, where he has written since the mid-1980s. He has covered the Toronto International Film Festival for The Georgia Straight for the past ten years. His celebrity interviews can be found at The Georgia Straight online, detailing a range of celebrities from William Shatner to Salman Rushdie and including such A-Listers as Emily Blunt, Michael Cera, and Terry Gilliam. In the fall of 2014, Leiren-Young was appointed editor of Reel West Magazine, a publication focused on the Western Canadian film industry. Leiren-Young also 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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