Rate My Professor Richard Jordan

Dr Richard Jordan serves as Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Digital Performance and Discipline Convenor within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education at the University of New England, where he joined in 2018. Previously, he worked for ten years as a professional playwright and theatre producer. His academic qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland (2015), a Master of Arts (Playwriting) from Queensland University of Technology, a Bachelor of Creative Industries from QUT, and an Advanced Diploma (Screenwriting) from the Australian Film Television and Radio School. Jordan's plays have earned significant recognition, such as the Australian Theatre Festival NYC Best New Play Award for The Tiniest Thing (2020), Queensland Premier’s Drama Award for 25 Down (2009), Lord Mayor’s Award for Best New Australian Work for Machina (2015), three Matilda Awards (2009; 2015), a residency at Marrickville Council (2011), and a Creative Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire (2013).

His research focuses on scriptwriting, theatre and digital performance, posthumanism, and contemporary drama. Jordan is authoring a monograph, Posthuman Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2025), examining plays by Caryl Churchill, Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Nottage, Jordan Harrison, and Manjula Padmanabhan that address technological acceleration's ethical implications. Notable publications encompass plays Machina (Playlab, 2014) and 25 Down (Playlab, 2009); peer-reviewed articles including “Reframing Humanist Tragedy in The Tiniest Thing” (CounterText, 2022), “Distributed Agencies in Dramatic Form: A Posthuman Perspective on Lucy Prebble's The Sugar Syndrome and Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone” (Modern Drama, 2021), and “Digital Alchemy: The Posthuman Drama of Adam J. A. Cass’s I Love You, Bro” (Australasian Drama Studies, 2014). In 2016, he founded the Incubator New Writing Program with Playlab in Brisbane, mentoring twelve emerging playwrights. He teaches units on theatrical modernism, Australian theatre, dramaturgy, playwriting, screenwriting, and public speaking, and has presented conference papers and guest lectures on posthuman theatre topics.