Jordan Tannahill

Jordan Tannahill is a Canadian author playwright and filmmaker based in London As a filmmaker Jordans short films Swim 2011 Father 2014 and his virtual reality piece Draw Me Close 2019 have been presented widely at festivals including the Toronto Int Film Festival the Venice Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival His novels and plays have been translated into a dozen languages and honoured with a number of prizes including two Governor Generals Literary Awards Canadas highest state honour for literature His debut novel Liminal was honoured with Frances 2021 Prix des jeunes libraires His second novel The Listeners was a Canadian bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize Tannahill has been described as the enfant terrible of Canadian Theatre by Libération the hottest name in Canadian theatre by The Montreal Gazette and widely celebrated as one of Canadas most accomplished young playwrights filmmakers and allround multidisciplinary artists by The Toronto Star In 2019 CBC Arts named Tannahill as one of sixtynine LGBTQ Canadians living or deceased who has shaped the countrys history His plays performance texts and productions have been presented at venues including The Young Vic Theatre London Sadlers Wells London Festival dAvignon Avignon The Kitchen NYC The Lincoln Centre NYC The Deutsches Theater Berlin The Volkstheater Vienna Canadian Stage Toronto Festival TransAmériques Montreal and on Londons West End