Canadian · b. 1988
Jordan Tannahill is a Canadian playwright, novelist, filmmaker and theatre director, born in Ottawa in 1988 and now based in the United Kingdom. He first drew attention with plays such as Age of Minority and Concord Floral, and his play Late Company was staged in several countries. His 2018 collection Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sicily brought together two of his early works. His debut novel, Liminal, appeared in 2018, and The Listeners followed in 2019 and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He also wrote Theatre of the Unimpressed, a book arguing for more daring theatre. He won the Governor General's Award for Drama for Age of Minority. He has also made virtual reality works, including Draw Me Close, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The Living Realm, a short novel about grief and the lost of the AIDS era, is among his recent books.