Jordan Tannahill is a playwright, author, and director of film and theatre. Jordan’s plays have been translated into nine languages and twice honoured with a Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama: in 2014 for Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays and in 2018 for Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom. His first novel, Liminal, won France’s Prix des jeunes libraires, and his second novel, The Listeners, was a finalist for the 2021 Giller Prize. In 2019, CBC Arts named Tannahill as one of sixty-nine LGBTQ Canadians, living or deceased, who have shaped the country’s history.
Kirsten Bowen is Literary Director for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, where she has served as Production Dramaturg on multiple world and DC premieres, including Jordan Tannahill’s Botticelli in the Fire. Prior to joining Woolly, she was Associate Literary Director for New York’s Signature Theatre. She has worked as a dramaturg for the National New Play Network/Kennedy Center’s MFA Playwrights’ Workshop, Columbia University’s School of the Arts, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and American Repertory Theater. She has a B.A. from Smith College and an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from the ART/MXAT Institute at Harvard University.
