Director & Dramaturg.

Jordi M. Carter (he/him/his) is a Caribbean-British director & dramaturg from Streatham, South London, and Designate to the Board of Trustees at Chichester Festival Theatre.

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 Theatre Award-nominated and Black British Theatre Award-winning UK Premiere of MARIE & ROSETTA by George Brant (dir. Monique Touko), and Assistant Director on the UK Theatre Award-winning & 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.

Up next, he returns as Associate Director on the West End Premiere of MARIE & ROSETTA, transferring to @sohoplace in Spring 2026.

PORTFOLIO.

JORDI M. CARTER

Director & Dramaturg.