Gordon Dahlquist is an American playwright and novelist. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Dahlquist has lived and worked in New York City since 1988. His plays, which include Messalina and Delirium Palace (both Garland Playwriting Award winners), have been performed in New York and Los Angeles. Graduate of Reed College and Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists.
Dahlquist's debut novel The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, a hybrid of fantasy and science fiction set in a period similar to the Victorian era, was published on August 1, 2006, to notable critical acclaim. Dahlquist was reportedly paid an advance of $2,000,000 for The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, the first of a two-book deal. Its sales were disappointing and it is estimated to have lost its publisher, Bantam, approximately $851,500. The sequel to The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, The Dark Volume, was published in the UK by Penguin on May 1, 2008, and on March 24, 2009, in the United States. A third volume, The Chemickal Marriage was published in July 2012. A young adult novel, The Different Girl was published in 2013. In 2015 he received the James Tait Black Prize for his play Tomorrow Come Today.
Plays Babylon 55 (with Mark Worthington), premiere Sumus Theatre, Portland, OR, 1984 Reticence, premiere Horace Mann Theatre NYC Severity's Mistress, premiere Walker Space NYC, 1995 Mission Byzantium, premiere The American Globe Theater NYC, 1995 Island of Dogs, premiere 4th Street Theater NYC, 1998 Vortex du Plaisir, premiere Ohio Theater NYC, 1999 The Secret Machine, premiere Walker Space NYC, 1999 Delirium Palace, premiere Evidence Room LA CA, 2001 Messalina, premiere Evidence Room LA CA, 2003 Babylon is Everywhere: A Court Masque, premiere NYC 2004 Venice Saved: A Seminar (with David Levine), premiere PS122 NYC, 2009 Tea Party, workshop premiere Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, 2012 Tomorrow Comes Today, premiere Undermain Theatre, Dallas, 2014 Red Chariot, premiere Undermain Theatre, Dallas, 2019
Novels Glass Books Trilogy The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (2006) The Dark Volume (2008) The Chemickal Marriage (2012)
Standalone novels The Different Girl (2013)
References
External links AOI Agency Author's Bio Biography and interview at bookreporter.com Author's Q&A with Powell's Books Interview with G W Dahlquist on Author's Lounge TV
CiNE: An Immodest Proposal for the Public Theater, Theater Magazine Different Girl Interview with Sara Ryan