Ain Gordon is a three-time Obie Award-winning writer/director/actor, a two-time NYFA recipient a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting, and a 2023 Creative Capital Awardee. Gordon’s work often focuses on marginalized/forgotten histories and/or the obscured figures inhabiting that space. Other current/recent projects include Relics And Their Humans: framing a real-life Ohio couple navigating an ALS diagnosis, presented at the Krannert Center (IL), the Wexner Center (OH), Arizona Arts Live, and La MaMa (NY); Radicals In Miniature: a series of requiems to personal icons, presented at Baryshnikov Arts Center (NY), Vermont Performance Lab (VT), International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Quick Center, Connecticut College (all CT), ’62 Center Theatre and Dance, and The Yard (both MA); 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, presented at the Painted Bride (PA), Baryshnikov Arts Center (NY), Transylvania University (KY) and the Center For The Art of Performance UCLA; and Not What Happened: a contrapuntal duet for a historical re-enactor and the woman she portrays – premiering at the BAM Next Wave Festival (NY), plus the Krannert Center (IL), Vermont Performance Lab & the Flynn Center (both VT), etc. Gordon’s work has also been seen at New York Theater Workshop, the Mark Taper Forum (CA), HERE Arts Center (NY), DiverseWorks (TX), Performance Space 122/PSNY, Dance Theater Workshop/NYLA, George St Playhouse (NJ), and MASS MoCA, among many others. Gordon has been Director of the Pick Up Performance Co(s) since 1992.