Dr Richard Jordan
Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Digital Performance - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Phone: +61 2 6773 2753
Email: rjordan7@une.edu.au
Biography
Richard joined UNE in 2018 after spending 10 years working as a professional playwright and theatre producer. His plays have garnered several awards and honours, including the Australian Theatre Festival NYC Best New Play Award (The Tiniest Thing, 2020), the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award (25 Down, 2009), the Lord Mayor’s Award for Best New Australian Work (Machina, 2015), three Matilda awards (2009; 2015), a writer’s residency at Marrickville Council, Sydney (2011), a Creative Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire (2013), and a public reading at the Royal Court Theatre, London (2008). Both 25 Down and Machina are published by Playlab Press. In 2016 he established the "Incubator" New Writing Program in conjunction with Playlab in Brisbane, where he mentored 12 emerging playwrights.
Richard is currently working on a monograph entitled Posthuman Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), which examines a series of plays from the 1990s to the 2020s that explore the ethical and political consequences of technological acceleration, including texts by Caryl Churchill, Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Nottage, Jordan Harrison, and Manjula Padmanabhan.
His most recent play The Tiniest Thing explores the politics of perception and inter-generational violence at the heart of the unfolding climate crisis.
