JORDI M. CARTER
Director & Dramaturg.
Jordi M. Carter (he/him/his) is a Caribbean-British director, dramaturg & theatre-maker from Streatham, South London.
His artistic journey began in 2015 on the Young Vic Theatre’s Parallel Production of MACBETH (dir. Caroline Byrne), cast in a company of local young people and refugees exploring themes of borders, territory and statelessness through physical theatre, movement, and music. After graduating with a First Class Joint Honours BA in Drama and Film Studies from the University of Sussex, he returned to the Young Vic as the Taking Part & Creators Program Young Associate, where he trained in the work of artistic output, community producing, and creative engagement.
With an interest in storytelling that blurs the line between the personal and the poetic, Jordi’s work across classical plays, adaptations, devised / community productions, and new writing explores themes of consciousness, identity, politics, culture, and emotional interiority.
Recently, he was Associate Director on the Bill Cashmore Award-winning FRIENDSGIVING / THE MENDING CIRCLE by Shona Graham and Chloe Yates with the Lyric Hammersmith Springboard Company (dir. Rebekah Murrell), Director of PAUSE/REWIND with the 14-17 Young Company at the Bush Theatre, Associate Director on the UK Premiere of MARIE & ROSETTA by George Brant (dir. Monique Touko), and Assistant Director on the Olivier Award-nominated adaptation of ANIMAL FARM by Tatty Hennessy (dir. Amy Leach).
He served as the 2024/25 Lambeth Baylis Trustee at The Old Vic, and as the inaugural Co-Artistic Director & CEO at Boundless Theatre in 2023.
He is an alumnus of Talawa Theatre Company’s Creating Routes Programme and Black Dramaturgy Club, the Young Vic’s Fresh Direction Programme (part of the Jerwood Artist Development Pathway), and New Diorama’s theatre business bootcamp The Knot. In 2023, he was a recipient of Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice Grant to develop a specialism in anti-racist approaches to theatre directing.
He is currently developing his debut playwriting project, supported by the Summer 2024 Grand Plan Fund.
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