Mark Haroun

Mark Haroun is an award winning playwright and screenwriter. His play for young audiences, A Giraffe in Paris, received its premiere at the Citadel Theatre in 2005 and was later produced in Montreal at Geordie Productions. The play was the winner of the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes award for Best Production for Young Audiences and was short listed for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama at the Alberta Book Awards. Mark was the recipient of the 2008 Canadian Authors Association’s Emerging Writer Award and winner of an AMPIA (Rosie) Award for screenwriting. Recently, he has written for Northern Lights Theatre’s Urban Tales Project Taking Possession and Concrete Theatre’s New Sprouts Festival. Currently, Mark is a writer and Executive Story Editor on CBC’s popular one-hour family drama Heartland.