Jordan is a BAFTA-winning television drama director from Yorkshire with a disability (cerebral palsy); he has over 70 hours of broadcast TV credits and first trained through the Channel 4 Cultural Diversity Network scheme. Jordan’s directing credits include among others; BBC1 comedy-drama Ralph & Katie; Channel 4 prison-drama series Screw; Channel 5 drama-thriller The Blindspot; two seasons of Channel 4 school drama Ackley Bridge; BBC1 mystery-drama Death in Paradise; and period-drama All Creatures Great & Small.
Jordan first honed his skills as a director on series 6 & 7 of the critically acclaimed Shameless for Company Pictures/Channel 4 and then was selected to be a member of Channel 4’s Shooting Party. Jordan went on to direct episodes for flagship BBC1 medical-drama-series Casualty (one of his episodes won a BAFTA in 2018), ITV’s Coronation Street, and Channel 4’s Hollyoaks (where he was nominated for the Channel 4 CDN “Best Breakthrough Talent” Award).
Jordan is represented in the US by Evan Lewis and Steve Smith at Stagecoach Entertainment and Michael Kolodny at Kaplan Stahler.
| Awards: | |
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| 2020 BAFTA BREAKTHROUGH | Jordan has been named a 2020 BAFTA UK Breakthrough: BAFTA Breakthrough UK |
| BAFTA AWARD: WINNER | Casualty: Best Continuing Drama Episode (2018) Director |
| Television (broadcast): | |
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| All Creatures Great & Small – Season 4 | Playground Entertainment / Channel 5 Drama Director of 2 x 60′ episodes for the period-drama adaptation, based on the books by James Herriot (2023) Producer: Yvonne Francas / Executive Producer: Colin Callendar |
| The Blindspot | Clapperboard TV / Channel 5 Drama Director of 4 x 60′ psychological-thriller limited drama series (2023) Producer: Pat Karem / Executive Producer: Mike Benson |
| Ralph & Katie – Season 1 | ITV Studios / BBC1 Director for all 6 episodes of the first season of the drama spin-off of BBC1’s The A Word (2022) Producer: Jules Hussey / Executive Producer: Patrick Spence |
| Screw – Season 1 | STV Drama / Channel 4 Director of 3 x 60′ episodes for the first season of the prison-drama series (2021) Producer: Brian Kaczynski / Executive Producer: Sarah Brown |
| Death in Paradise – Season 10 | Red Planet Pictures / BBC1 Director for the tenth series of the 60′ prime-time mystery-drama series (2020) Producer: Jim Poyser / Executive Producer: Tim Key |
| Ackley Bridge – Season 4 | The Forge Entertainment / Channel 4 Director for the fourth series of the hit Channel 4 drama (2020) Executive Producers: George Ormond |
| Casualty | BBC Drama / BBC1 Director of 9 x 60 min for the prime-time medical drama series (2015-2019) Winner of Best Continuing Drama BAFTA 2018 – Jordan’s episode was selected Producer: Dafydd Llewelyn / Executive Producers: Oliver Kent & Kate Oates |
| Ackley Bridge – Season 3 | The Forge Entertainment / Channel 4 Director of the final 2 x 60’ episodes of the new series of the hit Channel 4 drama (2019) Executive Producers: Alex Lamb & George Ormond |
| Emmerdale | ITV Studios / ITV1 12 x 30 minutes for the long-running soap (2019) Series Producer: Jane Hudson |
| Coronation Street | ITV Studios / ITV1 35 x 30 minutes for the long-running soap (2016-2019) Series Producer: Kate Oates / Iain MacLeod |
| The Evermoor Chronicles | Lime Pictures / Disney UK Director of 5 x 30 min episodes for the children’s mystery-drama series (2015) Series Producer: Tim Compton / Executive Producers: Kate Little & Claire Poyser |
| So Awkward | Channel X / CBBC Director of 12 x 30-min episodes for the first and second series CBBC children’s comedy-drama series (2014-2015) Nominated for a Children’s-BAFTA Award Series Producer: Sally Martin / Executive Producer: Alan Marke |
| The Dumping Ground | CBBC / CBBC Drama 5 x 30 minutes of the children’s drama series |
| Craven | BBC Learning / Savvy Productions 5 TV spin-off films from the hit Radio 4 series starring Maxine Peake (2014) Series Producer: Justine Potter |
| Doctors | BBC Drama / BBC1 Regular episodes for the popular daytime soap. Over 40 episodes (2012–2014) |
| Hollyoaks | Lime Pictures / Channel 4 Core director for the stylised and BAFTA winning teen soap. Over 40 episodes (2010–2013) |
| Hollyoaks | ‘T4 on the Beach’ Lime Pictures / Channel 4 Directed special segments of characters attending the real-life concert in Weston-Super-Mare |
| Hollyoaks | 2010/2011 Title Sequences Directed actors to be incorporated in the new Hollyoaks title sequence. Heavy use of Green Screen, CGI and wire work |
| Shameless | Company Pictures North / Channel 4 / Think Bigger Graduate Trainee Director on series 6 & 7 of the Channel 4 show |
| Cast Offs | Eleven Films / Channel 4 / Think Bigger Trainee director on the Channel 4 series. Shadowing director (Amanda Boyle) and shooting ‘behind the scenes’ footage |
| Collective Encounters | Community Channel / Media Trust Writer and director of a collection of dramatic extracts in a cinematic style with a homeless theatre group for broadcast with a digital broadcaster |
| Short film: | |
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| The Last Conjuror | Hoax Motion Pictures Writer and director of short film about the last magician – starring Sylvester McCoy (2015) |
| The Shooting Party | Maverick TV / Channel 4 Writer and director of a 3 Minute Wonder as part of The Shooting Party series |
| Producing: | |
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| Shameless DVD Extras | Company Pictures North / Channel 4 Co-producer of the extras for the series 6 DVD release |
| Television writing (in development): | |
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| Just Normal | Hare and Tortoise Co-creator (along with Dafydd Llewelyn) of this original comedy-drama series (under option) |
| Professional Education & Training: | |
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| 8-week multi-camera training/shadow directing block on ITV1’s Coronation Street. Funded by Think Bigger Scheme (2014) | |
| Selected for the Channel 4 Disabled Drama Scheme (2014) | |
| BA (Honors) Film Studies, Hull University | |
| Directing Actors: Tutor; Brian Gilbert, NFTS | |
| Directing Multi-Camera TV Drama: Tutor Laurence Moody, NFTS Week-long one-on-one session with ‘Coronation Street director Lawrence Moody. Drawing floor plans, camera scripts, studio practical, directing a multi-camera piece, etc. |
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| Writing and Story-lining TV Drama: NFTS |
| Award Nominations: | |
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| The Guardian March 2008 “Next Big Thing” | |
| Cultural Diversity Network “Most Outstanding New Talent” 2010 |