Ain Gordon

AIN GORDON is a three-time Obie Award-winning writer/director/actor, a two-time NYFA recipient a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting, and a Creative Capital Awardee. Gordon’s work often focuses on marginalized/forgotten histories and the obscured figures found within. Recent projects include Relics And Their Humans: collaborating with Josh Quillen to frame a real-life couple from Dover, OH, at Krannert Center (IL), Arizona Arts Live, Wexner Center (OH), and La MaMa (NY); These Don’t Easily Scatter: excavating the early years of the AIDS crisis in Philadelphia, in collaboration with the William Way LGBT Community Center with support from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage plus development at Boston University; Radicals In Miniature: collaborating with Josh Quillen on a series of requiems to personal icons at Baryshnikov Arts (NY), International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Quick Center, Connecticut College (all CT), Williams College and The Yard (both MA); and 217 Boxes Of Dr. Henry Anonymous: culminating a 2-year residency at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania focused on Dr. John 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 (NY), Transylvania University (KY) and the Center For The Art of Performance UCLA. Gordon’s work has also been seen at BAM Next Wave, New York Theater Workshop, the Mark Taper Forum, Flynn Center, HERE Arts Center, DiverseWorks, Performance Space 122/PSNY, George St Playhouse (NJ), and MASS MoCA, among many others. Gordon is a former Core Writer of the Playwright’s Center (MN), has twice held the post of Visiting Artist at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (PA), a former Artist-In-Residence at NYU Tisch School of The Arts, former Resident Artist at The Hermitage (FL), and was a 2020 Pabst Endowed Writer-In-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Gordon has been a Director of the Pick Up Performance Co(s) since 1992.