JORDI M. CARTER

Director.

Jordi M. Carter (he/him/his) is a Caribbean-British director from Streatham, South London.

His work explores how people inherit, resist, and remake systems of power, belonging, and memory. Combining dramaturgy with movement, rhythm and ensemble practice, he foregrounds interiority, memory, and collective experience.

Centring Black British, West Indian and diasporic lives, his work seeks to reveal the human complexity that exists beneath social labels, political narratives and inherited structures. He is particularly interested in the ways individuals and communities imagine themselves beyond the systems that shape them.

UP NEXT.

He co-directs the pilot short film adaptation of PAUSE/REWIND, growing from his 2025 devised production with the Bush Theatre Young Company.

He returns to Talawa Theatre Company’s TALAWA FIRSTS as Director of the INTRODUCTORY WRITERS GROUP SHOWCASE in July 2026.

RECENTLY.

He made his West End debut as the Associate Director of MARIE & ROSETTA (dir. Monique Touko) at @sohoplace, directed Daniel Kaluuya’s Centre 59 Company in the sold-out devised production …BEFORE I WAKE at the Roundhouse, and directed the ALMEIDA THEATRE YOUNG COMPANY in two new writing commissions written in response to Anya Reiss’ adaptation of A DOLL’S HOUSE.

He currently sits on the Board of Trustees at Chichester Festival Theatre, and was formerly the 2024/25 Lambeth Baylis Trustee at The Old Vic and Co-Artistic Director & CEO of Boundless Theatre.

He holds a First Class BA (Joint Honours) in Drama & Film Studies.