Jordan Tannahill is a Canadian author, playwright, and filmmaker based in London.

As a filmmaker, Jordan's 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, Canada's highest state honour for literature. His debut novel, Liminal, was honoured with France's 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 Canada's most accomplished young playwrights, filmmakers and all-round multidisciplinary artists" by The Toronto Star. In 2019, CBC Arts named Tannahill as one of sixty-nine LGBTQ Canadians, living or deceased, who has shaped the country's history.

His plays, performance texts, and productions have been presented at venues including The Young Vic Theatre (London), Sadler's Wells (London), Festival d'Avignon (Avignon), The Kitchen (NYC), The Lincoln Centre (NYC), The Deutsches Theater (Berlin), The Volkstheater (Vienna), Canadian Stage (Toronto), Festival TransAmériques (Montreal), and on London's West End.

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