Director. Dramaturg. Creative Producer. Writer.

Jordi M. Carter (he/him/his) is a Caribbean-British director and dramaturg 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. 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.

His directing journey began via the Young Vic Theatre’s Intro to Directing programme (led by Diyan Zora, 2021) and Fresh Direction programme (led by Nimmo Ismail and Monique Touko, 2022—2023) and he spent a year honing his specialism in anti-racist theatre directing practice via Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice Grant (2023—2024), enabling him access to specialist education via the Black Acting Methods Studio in the USA.

Jordi currently sits on the Board of Trustees at The Old Vic as the 2024—2025 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, he 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—2022 Taking Part & Creators Program Young Associate at the Young Vic. 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 to develop his debut play (2024) and was a shortlist nominee for the Stuart Hall Foundation Fellowship at the University of Sussex (2021—2022) 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.