Gordon Dahlquist
Biography
Gordon Dahlquist
Gordon Dahlquist
is a native of the Pacific Northwest, where he worked for several
years writing and directing plays. Since 1988 he has lived in New
York. He has been a member of New Dramatists, is a New York Theatre
Workshop Usual Suspect, and a founding member of the CiNE. His
works include Messalina (Evidence Room, Los Angeles: SPF,
New York), text for Babylon Is Everywhere: A Court Masque
(CiNE, Schaeberle Theatre; Theatre Magazine), Delirium
Palace (Evidence Room, Los Angeles; published in Breaking
Ground), The Secret Machine (Twilight Theatre Company at
Solo Rep), Vortex du Plaisir (Ice Factory '99 Festival at
the Ohio Theatre, WKCR'S Manhattan Theatre of the Air), Island
of Dogs (4th Street Theatre), Severity's Mistress (Soho
Rep Theatre, New York University; winner of Primary stages' Bug
&Bub award), Mission Byzantium! (American Globe Theatre,
NYTW's Just Add Water Festival), and Reitcence (Horace Mann
Theatre).
He has written and directed several experimental films, that have
been selected for the San Francisco International Film Festival,
the Seattle International Film Festival, and the Northwest Film and
Video Film Festival. He is a graduate of Reed College and Columbia
University's School of the Arts. He has received two Garland
Playwriting Awards for Messalina and Delirium
Palace.
THE GLASS BOOKS OF THE DREAM EATERS is his first
novel.
Gordon Dahlquist
