Gordon Armstrong was born in New Westminster, BC, in 1960. He first emerged as a playwright in 1985 with Hashisch. His play A Map of the Senses received the Sydney Risk Award in 1992. His play Plague of the Gorgeous premiered at the Gastown Theatre in 1995. At the time of his death, of compllications due to AIDS, Gordon was working on two plays, Curiosity and Sex in Heaven.