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Jordan Tannahill

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2 years

Outtakes from the Hounds of Love photoshoot

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I know only five fellow playwriting nerds will care but the way Clare Barron is formatting the published text of Dance Nation is really something

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Tony Kushner came to my play reading today and said he loved it so I guess I can die now

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Janicza Bravo (Zola) will be directing my adaptation of The Listeners, starring Rebecca Hall, for BBC television. Element Pictures (Poor Things, Normal People) are producing. It has been an extraordinary collaboration, I can’t wait to share it with you all soon

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📢 The BBC has commissioned The Listeners, starring Rebecca Hall and based on the novel by Jordan Tannahill It centres around a popular English teacher, who begins to hear a low humming sound that no one else around her can hear More ➡️

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The only royalty I’m mourning today is DMX

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An established author once told me doing porn would make it harder for people to take me ‘seriously’ as a writer, and then waxed poetic about Knausgaard, as if writing 3700 pages about yourself isn’t pornography

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Sometimes I think life is just the process of falling in love with people, places, and things, and then gradually saying goodbye to them one by one

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3 years

@JoyceCarolOates I like a twink and I like a bear, there’s really no need to compare

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2 years

I’m often searching for new & interesting instrumental & ambient music, probably because that’s the music I spend a lot of time with as I write. If you’re the same, you might like these 20 albums from 2022 🧵

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Because it will never see the light of day after being indefinitely covid-cancelled, I just want to mention that Alice Birch adapted all three novels in Rachel Cusk’s Outline Trilogy, and they were going to be directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre. Imagine

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3 years

❤️ Ms Crawford ❤️

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All of us who work in live performance let us please agree: no matter the size of the show, the second someone dies, we stop the show

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3 years

I… 😶

Scotiabank Giller Prize

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3 years

We are pleased to introduce the 2021 #ScotiabankGillerPrize longlist. Congratulations to all of the authors! #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit

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3 years

Yakei, a female macaque in a nature reserve in Japan, violently overthrew the alpha male of her troop to become its first female leader in the reserve’s 70-year history. She presides over 677 monkeys, but a messy love triangle could endanger her status.

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4 years

Some big personal news... For the last four years I’ve been hard at work on my second novel, The Listeners. Today I can finally share the news that it’s being published this August on both sides of the Atlantic by @HarperCollins !

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3 years

Dune, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Spider Man… we can’t get enough of twink messiahs!

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3 years

I want a biopic about the young Highway brothers, René and Tomson. Maybe set in ‘86 while René was originating the role of Nanabush in his brother’s breakout play The Rez Sisters, a few years before he died of AIDS. To see those two onscreen together would be really something

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2 years

A true hound of love!

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Friends & colleagues in Canadian media, publishing, etc - trans identity is not your rhetorical battleground. I want to read about trans joy, trans pleasure, trans spirituality, trans subversiveness, trans life - from trans writers

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Afternoon tea protest action at The Dorchester Hotel, in response to Brunei’s new law condemning homosexuals to death by stoning. The Brunei Investment Agency owns The Dorchester Collection. Part 1 @eltonofficial @TheEllenShow

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We lost the Booker, we lost the Tony, we lost the Giller… but honey we are winning

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UK publication day! #TheListeners is officially a real book today. In sexy hardback!

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Whatever the outcome tonight, it has been one of the great honours of my life to be shortlisted alongside @Cheluchi_O , @omarelakkad , Angélique Lalonde, and Miriam Toews for the @GillerPrize . Feeling grateful for all the extraordinary storytellers in this world.

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I gotta buy a dress!

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The toys my boyfriend’s dad gave him as a child to butch him up

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From hannah baer’s Artforum essay Dance Until the World Ends

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4 years

Being a playwright in 2021 is making more money through online sex chat work than in theatre

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I’m calling it now. @BillyRayB will win the Nobel Prize for Literature one day

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UK paperback cover of The Listeners, designed by Jack Smyth for 4th Estate 👂👂👂👂👂

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I’m sorry for taking so long to reply to emails and texts, I’m in love

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Happy to share that The Listeners will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September

The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Primetime & Short Cuts Lineup

TIFF is pleased to announce its Short Cuts, supported by the Ontario Arts Council, and Primetime programmes for the 2024 season. Celebrating the very best of short and serialized content, audiences...

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I hope my grade four bullies realise how hot I am now

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Just met a dancer whose dog is named Pina Bow Wowsch

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Is My Microphone On? at the National Theatre @NationalTheatre @NTConnections 2023

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As I save PDFs of my past reviews from NOW Magazine, before it disappears into the ether, I feel such gratitude to @glennsumi , @jordanbimm , @susangcole , @somanydreams , @KevinRitchie , and of course Jon Kaplan, who wrote about my work over the years 1/2

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Nicole Kidman in the Pietà di San Remigio (1365)

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He cooks too

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As someone who earns a considerable amount of their income from putting businessmen in dog hoods and walking them around on leashes, I gotta say I think marriage is absolutely the kinkiest & craziest of all durational S&M role play scenarios ever invented

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4 years

This Wednesday I’m going to be in conversation with my bb @jeremyoharris for Oxford University’s Corpus Christi seminar series ‘Queer and the Classical: Futures and Potentialities.’ Hear us talk about how those ancient Greeks were perverts just like us.

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3 years

Brooklyn brunch with this babe @caseyplett 💞

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Need to remember that I’m not the kind of person who can open Photos on my phone in a crowded subway car

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1 year

Cautionary tale for playwrights. My Czech translator told me she spent two days stressing over the difference between ‘light shift’ and ‘lights shift’ in my stage directions. She talked to technicians, directors, other translators about it. I just told her over zoom it was a typo

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3 years

Im going to be playing the late artist Colin Campbell in a new film by John Greyson called HORSEMINT, shooting in Toronto this summer. Its my first role on camera, so pretty nervous & excited in equal measure. I’m looking forward to seeing much-missed Toronto beloveds while there

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2 years

The thing I love most about Toronto vs London or NY is if I say Jon, Amy, Aisha, Bridget… Toronto art people know exactly who I’m talking about, and I think that’s the difference between having a community vs being part of an industry. Idk maybe I’m just homesick lol

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Young queers: don’t let anyone police your sexuality, or tell you what you can or can’t wear, or how queer you can or can’t be, particularly in spaces that your ancestors fought tirelessly to carve out from the mainstream ✨

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I saw Company on Broadway a couple of nights ago. The moment Patti LuPone finished belting out The Ladies Who Lunch, the whole audience leapt to their feet and applauded for nearly a full minute. That’s the power of Sondheim.

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3 years

Saoirse distancing

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It’s release day for The Listeners in North America! If you’re interested in picking up a copy, please consider buying through your local bookstore.

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2 years

This past Saturday night, Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s opera The Listeners premiered at the Norwegian National Opera, under Lileana Blain-Cruz’s direction. It was truly one of the great experiences of my life to be in the audience. Bravo to the entire company.

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3 years

Being gay in your thirties is mistaking your bottle of poppers for your bottle of lavender oil and sprinkling it over your pillows before bed

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On earth we are briefly gorgeous

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3 years

Thinking about how in Albania, under the dictator Hoxha, so much literature was banned - accept someone discovered five copies of ‘Leaves of Grass’ by Walt Whitman had snuck past the censor by being mistakenly classified as an agriculture book, and were in constant circulation 🌾

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2 years

Happy opening night to the cast & crew of “Daddy” at Almeida. This is the Theatre we have been waiting years to return to. Bold, hot-blooded, full-frontal melodrama, Adrienne Kennedy-meets-Almodóvar-meets-Hockney. Let’s get wet London💦

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Celine Diog

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There are few writers I know who write with such personal and political clarity as Alicia. This is a remarkably vulnerable and courageous piece of writing. And is the most meaningful thing someone has ever written about my work.

Alicia Elliott - AND THEN SHE FELL out now!

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3 years

This was very vulnerable for me, as I haven't really written much about my mental health crisis and illness. But seeing parallels to my own experiences of isolation and fear while reading @cruising_utopia 's The Listeners has given me an opening to do that.

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I’m expecting flowers today from all the guys who’ve started calling me Daddy in the last year

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3 years

As we prepare to open Draw Me Close this week @Soulpepper , I’m preoccupied with thoughts of the extraordinary Teva Harrison, who was the show’s illustrator. Teva passed from metastatic breast cancer (same as my mother’s) in 2019, but her spirit endures in everything she touched

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3 years

I miss double double land

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2 years

American conservatives upset about the same-sex marriage bill will be comforted to learn that Adelphopoiesis, a ritual of same-sex marriage widely attested in Byzantine liturgical texts, was practiced from the late 8th century until the 18th century. A return to tradition!

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The kids in my mom’s neighbourhood know what’s up

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3 years

Im going to be in conversation with @backxwash at the Festival TransAmériques @FTAMontreal talking about the sublime 🌊🌋💀 If you’re in Montreal please join us on Jun 6, or catch it online. More info here:

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A few days ago I described a Louise Glück poem to a friend as ‘cutting like an X-Acto knife’ in its precision. This evening I decide to read Glück’s Wikipedia page… and I’ve just learned that her father made his fortune… inventing the X-Acto knife

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Nina is alive

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Gays

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Congratulations to my fellow authors on the 2021 #GillerPrize longlist. What an incredible honour.

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Straight boys doing poppers at the club is allyship

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True story John Cameron Mitchell borrowed my butt-zipper bleachers for his Tiger King audition and landed the role. Helping television history get made one gay pair of pants at a time.

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3 years

Happy Chinese New Year to everyone except the nazi truckers

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Should I?

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Uncle Jordan bedtime reading

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The British really have no problem naming places like this

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summer 2021 Im ready to fully manifest the chaotic energy of the 👅 emoji

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I made some lists of my favourite art from 2021 - partly to remind myself of what got me through a hard year, and partly because I always enjoy reading other peoples’ lists 📝 (about half of this I experienced online, half in person) Thanks to these artists.

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Tom of Holland

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Arts writing & criticism is integral to any cultural ecology, and NOW played such a big role in supporting Toronto’s scene. The first time I ever saw my work written about was in its pages. It saddens me younger artists will never feel that thrill. Thanks for everything NOW

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Fixing your hair in the reflection of a parked car’s window… and then meeting the gaze of the driver still inside

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2 years

doing k at a rave tonight < staying in and reading Donna J Haraway

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I noticed my mother has a photograph of her neighbour’s dog on her dining room wall. When I asked her about it she said her neighbour gave it to her and she felt obliged to hang it up. And now feels she can’t take it down

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2 years

Just another quiet Saturday in the UK Eat breakfast Water the plants Think about class war Grocery shop Nap Eat lunch Think about class war Call home Talk about class war Make dinner for friends Talk about class war Scroll through Grindr Fall asleep Dream about class war

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1 year

2023 lineup announced by Festival TransAmériques includes Back to Back Theatre, Dana Gingras, Dana Michel, and Okwui Okpokwasili’s seminal Bronx Gothic. I will cover the return train fare for five emerging Toronto performance makers to attend, pls DM me

Programming | #FTA2024

Discover the dance + theatre shows of the 18th edition of Festival TransAmériques, from May 22 to June 6, 2024.

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Late summer reading

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My polycule

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@citizen__girl And I can confirm Shawn got it from kissing me

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LOVE IS REAL! Love is also work, and I’ve watched these two beautiful humans doing love’s work, building a life together these past few years through patience, care, growth, weathering hardship and setbacks. Theirs is the real thing. I love you guys & couldn’t be prouder

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He also literally proposed in Arkansas at the @crystalbridges in between a @kehindewileyart , an Amy Sherald, and a Kerry James Marshall! What art boy wouldn’t die from that memory alone??? This is one of the most thoughtful men ever and im so lucky.

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It really made my week to get this blurb from @BillyRayB . “The Listeners is breathtakingly timely. It’s an enigmatic story of 21st-century melancholia motored by sentences at once propulsive and erudite (that beautiful synthesis). Everyone’s going to be talking about this book.”

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Pass the peace please

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I’ve somehow managed to fall in love with a man who doesn’t like Joni Mitchell

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I’m really here for the twink reading The Song of Achilles in one minute bursts between swabbing people’s noses at this COVID testing centre

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I think someone should make another film called Crash

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Faggots painted the Sistine Chapel

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*whispers under breath* mother

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3 years

I’ll be giving a talk at Oxford on Dec 6 about non-human subjectivity in performance & imagining theatre beyond a homocentric worldview. It’s online and free, registration via link below.

Staging Wild: Non-Human Subjectivity in Performance

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2 years

The Listeners UK paperback is out today! 👂👂👂👂👂

4th Estate Books

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While lying next to her husband one night, Claire hears a low hum that he cannot. And, it seems, no one else can either. A masterful speculative novel exploring the fine lines between faith, conspiracy & mania. @TannahillJordan 's THE LISTENERS is out in paperback today!

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I wrote an article for The Guardian about The Hum, and what it says about our relationship with nature, our built environment, and perhaps even truth itself. #TheListeners #TheHum #GuardianBooks

Can you hear the Hum? The mystery noise that says a lot about modern life

The insistent low-frequency sound has been heard from Bristol to Swansea and ascribed to everything from horny fish to 5G – but the enigma itself is telling

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My grandmother gave me my love of poetry & nature. Her earthly body turns 90 today.

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Looking forward to talking today with @TamaraFaithBerg , who writes about the body, desire, and the abject in ways I can only aspire. Thank you for hosting @torontolibrary

Toronto Public Library

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3 years

Today! Jordan Tannahill ( @cruising_utopia ) discusses The Listeners, a novel about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound no one else can hear. In conversation with @TamaraFaithBerg . Tune in LIVE Dec 17 at 12 pm or watch the replay at

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Some fanboy dreams do come true

The Book Drunkard Festival

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Oct 24: Giller Nominee Jordan Tannahill @cruising_utopia in conversation with Heather O'Neill @lethal_heroine We CANNOT wait for this one! Offered solo or in Flight A package. 🎟️ link in bio! #booksconnectus #bookdrunkardfest

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Still thinking about this dog from the Trans Pride March

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