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''. Young is a well-respected stage actor. He is the co-founder of Electric Company Theatre in
Vancouver
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,
British Columbia
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, Canada in which he is also the artistic director, playwright, and actor.
Early life
Born on May 8, 1973 in
Richmond Hill, Ontario
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, he was raised in
Vernon, British Columbia
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, along with his brother and sister. Their father was a school teacher who started a
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in Armstrong, British Columbia. At a "Q&A" after the play ''No Exit'', Young told the audience that his father often brought him and his sister to watch him act and that this is where his love for theatre began. Becoming an actor was never a choice, but rather just something he knew he was going to do.
Career
Young is a graduate of the
Studio 58
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Vancouver, British Columbia
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. In 1996 he co-founded
Electric Company Theatre
Electric Company Theatre is a professional theatre company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
History
The Electric Company Theatre was originally formed as a collective in 1996 by Kim Collier, David Hudgins, Kevin Kerr and current Art ...
along with fellow Studio 58 alumni Kim Collier, David Hudgins, and Kevin Kerr. He is a multiple
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award
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winner. His play ''Palace Grand'' was commissioned for production by Vancouver's
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
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in 2008.
Young has
collaborated
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with the contemporary dance theatre company
Kidd Pivot
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, first in the award-winning "Betroffenheit" (premiered 2015, co-created by Young and choreographer and dancer
Crystal Pite
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), then in "Revisor" (2019), which is a dance interpretation of
Nikolai Gogol
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's play
The Government Inspector
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