Originally from Dearborn Michigan and raised in Ottawa Ontario, Yousef is a Lebanese Canadian actor, writer and curator, as well as a right leg below knee amputee. Yousef is a graduate of the Acting (2017) program at the National Theatre School of Canada, and since graduation Yousef has spent his time as an actor between Toronto and Montreal. Yousef is also a founding company member of Other HeArts, a Toronto based performance collective.
As an artist Yousef seeks to draw from a plurality of experiences and disciplines to expand the boundaries of performance in pursuit of accessibility, presence, and shared experience.
Yousef’s selected theatre credits include: Mo, Rubble, with Aluna Theatre (2023) Jon, Jonathan: la figure du goeland, with Surreal soReal theatre (2021) & Jihad, Eraser, as a part of the Riser Project Festival (2019)