Yousef Kadoura - teaching artist in the Acting Program

Originally from Dearborn Michigan and raised in Ottawa Ontario, Yousef is a Lebanese Canadian actor, writer and producer, 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.

In 2017 he produced and created the Walking the Space podcast, a three part series exploring disability in Canadian Theatre, he is currently a editor and host of the podcast Crip Times. In 2018 he became the co-Curator of the Flourishing series at Tangled Art + Disability in Toronto. Yousef has also written for publications such as Intermission Magazine, and Musagetes.

Yousef is a founding company member of Other HeArts, a new performance collective which came together initially as a producing vehicle for Yousef’s show One Night in Aluna theatres Caminos Festival.

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.

Photo Credit: Dahlia Katz 2023