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Richard Jordan

RICHARD JORDAN

  (1988 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Richard Jordan is an award-winning Brisbane-based playwright, whose work has been performed in the UK, Australia, and the United States. His first play Into the Nile was shortlisted for the Queensland Theatre Company Young Playwrights Award in 2002. His second play like, dead was produced at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts in 2005, and again by Vena Cava Theatre Company in 2009. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Court Theatre Young Writers Programme in London from 2007-08. His third play 25 Down won the 2008-09 Queensland Premiers Drama Award, and was produced by Queensland Theatre Company as part of their 2009 season. His fourth play Machina premiered as part of La Boite Theatre Companys Indie Season in 2014. Both 25 Down and Machina have been published by Playlab Press. Richard is the recipient of two Matilda Awards (2010), a Marrickville Council Artists Residency (2011), and a MacDowell Colony Creative Fellowship, New Hampshire (2012/13). He is a full member of the Australian Writers Guild, and is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland.

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below is a list of Richard Jordan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         25 Down         Into the Nile         Like, Dead         Machina

25 Down

25 Down
James a gay 25 year old is having a life crisis and sets about destroying everyone around him

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Winner of the 2008 Queensland Premier's Drama Award

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Playlab Press, Australia   978-0-908156-94-8

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Genre:
Comedy Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Into the Nile

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Like, Dead

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It is Mark's twentieth birthday party - but Mark is dead and his friends arriving for the party just want to have fun

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1st Produced:
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane    2005

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Genre:
Black comedy. - - Gay, theme/character, full length

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Machina

Machina
One month ago, David Sergeant made the ultimate commitment to social media, choosing to forever separate mind and body by uploading his consciousness into social networking site Machina. An experimental and irreversible new process known as 'Going Inside', the user discards their need for a physical body and attains a kind of digital immortality in the cloud. Now, as David's family, friends and ex-lovers struggle to come to terms with his physical absence, questions are being asked about why this promising young man committed the equivalent of social suicide. Did he go willingly? Or was he pushed? David's mother is determined to find out, even if it means reaching out to her son from the other side. . .Set in an uncomfortably familiar world of carefully-constructed online profiles and disposable digital relationships

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1st Produced:
part of La Boite Theatre Companys Indie Season    2014

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1st Published:
Playlab Press, Australia   978 1 921390 70 8

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  Some actors are to play multiple roles

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