Jordan Tannahill is a novelist, playwright, and director. His plays and books have been translated into twenty languages, and honoured with a number of prizes including two Governor Generals' Literary Awards. His work has been presented at venues including the Festival d'Avignon; the Venice Biennial; The Kitchen and The Lincoln Centre in NYC; The Deutsches Theatre in Berlin; The Young Vic Theatre, Sadler's Wells, and on the West End in London. In 2025, his play Prince Faggot (Playwrights Horizons / Soho Rep) ran for six months and became the most nominated Off-Broadway play that season, winning the Lucille Lortel Award for Best New Play. His novel, The Living Realm, was just released in September 2026, and called "astonishing" by the New York Times. His other two novels are, Liminal, which received France’s 2021 Prix des Jeunes Libraires, and, The Listeners, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize, and adapted into a series for the BBC. An opera based on the story of The Listeners, by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek, premiered at the National Opera of Norway in 2022. Most recently, he wrote the screenplay for Levan Akin's upcoming film Summer In Heat (2027). From 2012 to 2016, in collaboration with William Ellis, Jordan ran the alternative art space Videofag out of their home in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood. In 2019, CBC Arts named Jordan one of sixty-nine LGBTQ Canadians, living or deceased, who has shaped the country's history.
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