Ain Gordon

Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie Award-winning writer/director/actor, two-time NYFA recipient a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting, and a 2023 Creative Capital recipient. Gordon’s work primarily sources lost or intentionally marginalized history. Recent projects include Relics And Their Humans: a collaboration with Josh Quillen, framing a real-life Dover, OH couple, at Krannert Center (IL), Wexner Center (OH) and Arizona Arts Live; These Don’t Easily Scatter narrating the early years of the AIDS crisis in Philadelphia, commissioned by the William Way LGBT Center with support from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage; Radicals In Miniature: with Josh Quillen, collected requiems to personal icons, at Baryshnikov Arts (NY), Arts & Ideas, Quick Center, Connecticut College (all CT), Williams College and The Yard (both MA); 217 Boxes Of Dr. Henry Anonymous: culminating a two-year residency at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania focused on Dr. Fryer who, in 1972, disguised as Dr. Anonymous opposed the American Psychiatric Association’s classification of homosexuality as a disease, at the Painted Bride (PA), Baryshnikov Arts, Transylvania University (KY) and Center For The Art of Performance/UCLA. Previously Gordon’s work has been seen at BAM Next Wave, The Mark Taper Forum, Soho Rep, The Public Theatre, PSNY/PS122, Boston University, DiverseWorks, HERE, MASS MoCA, George St Playhouse, and The Flynn Center among many others. Director of Pick Up Performance Co.