Concord Floral was shortlisted for the 2016 Governor General's Award and won the 2015 Dora Award for Outstanding New Play. Jordan Tannahill wrote the script over three iterations, while BruchabarBest Erin Bruchabar, Cara Spooner, and Jordan Tannahill In 2010, Jordan Tannahill went to a party thrown at the real Concord Floral, an abandoned greenhouse in Vaughan, a suburb of North Toronto. Attending this party reminded Jordan of the spaces he hung out in as a teenager, and it made him think about how adolescents reclaim disused spaces in their suburbs as sites of refuge, ritual and coming-of-age. During this time he also rediscovered The Decameron, a collection of short stories written by the 14th century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio.