Canadian
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screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for '' The F Word'', for which he won the
Canadian Screen Award
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2nd Canadian Screen Awards
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He was born and raised in
Vancouver
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,
British Columbia
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,"A wild ride for F Word's screenwriter; B.C. native 'dropped into deep end' of Hollywood while in grad school". ''
Ottawa Citizen
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History
Established as the Bytown ''Packet'' in 1845 by William Harris (journalist), William Harris, it was renamed the ''Ci ...
'', August 22, 2014. to a Canadian mother and an
Israel
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i immigrant father. Both his parents are
Jewish
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, and they met in
Jerusalem
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Concordia University
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.
In 2015, Mastai secured a $1.25 million deal for his
debut novel
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, '' All Our Wrong Todays''. A science fiction novel, the book concerns a man from an alternate history utopia who, while part of a time travel experiment, causes a drastic alteration of his history, and regains consciousness in our society. The novel was published on February 7, 2017. In 2017 he was described as working on a screenplay for ''All Our Wrong Todays'', and working on a second novel.
Mastai is supervising producer and staff writer of
NBC
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's ''
This Is Us
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