Jordan Tannahill is a Canadian author, playwright, filmmaker, and theatre director.
10 Facts About Jordan Tannahill
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Jordan Tannahill's second novel, The Listeners was a Canadian bestseller, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize.
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Jordan Tannahill was born and raised in Ottawa, where he attended Canterbury High School.
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Jordan Tannahill moved to Toronto at the age of eighteen, and began making short films and staging experimental plays, often with non-traditional collaborators like night-shift workers, frat boys, preteens, and employees of Toronto's famed Honest Ed's discount emporium.
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Jordan Tannahill's plays frequently explore the nature of belief, queer identity, power relations, and the body as a political subject.
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Jordan Tannahill's work has been performed across North America and Europe, particularly in Germany, where several of his plays are in state theater repertory.
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Jordan Tannahill's play Concord Floral was a finalist for the award in 2016.
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Jordan Tannahill has been nominated for five Outstanding New Play Dora Mavor Moore Awards, winning in 2013 for his live-streamed monologue rihannaboi95, and in 2015 for Concord Floral.
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In 2012, in collaboration with his then-partner William Ellis, Jordan Tannahill founded and ran Videofag, an alternative arts space operated out of a defunct barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market.
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On November 23,2018, Jordan Tannahill read the entirety of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble over nine hours outside the Hungarian Parliament Building in protest of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's decision to revoke accreditation and funding for gender studies programs in the country.