JORDI M. CARTER

Director. Dramaturg. Creative Producer. Writer.

Jordi M. Carter (he/him/his) is a Caribbean-British director from Streatham, South London. His artistic practice is rooted in theatrical storytelling traditions of the Black Diaspora and Global South, and centres culturally grounded work shaped by care, collaboration, mindfulness, and emotional honesty. His directing journey began via training on the Young Vic Theatre’s Fresh Direction programme under Nimmo Ismail and Monique Touko, and he spent a year honing his specialism in anti-racist theatre directing practice via the Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice Grant (2023—2024), enabling him access to specialist education via the US-based Black Acting Methods Studio.

As a director, he is drawn to stories that blur the line between the personal and the poetic, that explore consciousness, identity, politics, community, and the liberatory power of self-expression — working across classical adaptations, devised work, and new writing.

Jordi currently sits on the Board of Trustees at The Old Vic as the 2024/25 Lambeth Baylis Trustee, and is Associate Director on the Rose Theatre / English Touring Theatre / Chichester Festival Theatre UK Premiere of Marie & Rosetta by George Brant (May — Jul 2025). Recently, Jordi was the Assistant Director on the Olivier Award-nominated Theatre Royal Stratford East & Leeds Playhouse co-production of Animal Farm adapted by Tatty Hennessy (in association with Nottingham Playhouse, Feb—Apr 2025).

He served as the inaugural Co-Artistic Director & Chief Executive Officer at Boundless Theatre in 2023, and was the 2021/22 Taking Part & Creators Program Young Associate at the Young Vic, where he trained for a year in the work of creative engagement, community producing, and artistic output.

He is an alumnus of Talawa Theatre Company’s Creating Routes, the Young Vic’s Fresh Direction, New Diorama’s theatre business bootcamp The Knot, and Theatre Peckham’s Young Producers Programmes. He was a recipient of the Grand Plan Fund for Playwriting (2024) and was a shortlist nominee for the Stuart Hall Foundation Fellowship at the University of Sussex (2021/22) and former Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2022 — 2023).

He holds a First Class Joint Honours BA in Drama and Film Studies from the University of Sussex, and will be pursuing a Joint Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at UAL: Central Saint Martins and Birkbeck, University of London from September 2025.

Image by Steffi Njoya (Animal Farm rehearsals at Leeds Playhouse, Jan 2025)