Jordi M. Carter

Jordi (he/him, b. 1999) is a multi-disciplinary artist from South London. Working as a creative director, facilitator, producer, tutor and lecturer, Jordi is passionate about creating, producing and developing work foregrounding African and Caribbean rituals, aesthetics, and processes, promoting indigenous and diasporic storytelling practices, and culturally relevant modes of creative expression.

“Afrocentricity says that African people should examine all forms of knowledge and experiences from the standpoint of Africans being the makers, creators, inventors and actors in our own narrative.” — Molefi Kete Asante

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Credits

Director: THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR by Nikolai Gogol (for EVOLUTION: LABS) | Lyric Hammersmith Theatre & UAL: Wimbledon College of Arts | Feb - March 2024

Director: BLACK TERROR; OR, LOOKING FOR BILL (R&D) by Kalungi Ssebandeke | Guildhall School of Music & Drama | March 2024.

Director: BEING BOLD TOGETHER | University of Sussex | Feb—March 2024.

Director: THE HIVVY (R&D) by Luke Elliott | Gateway Arts in association with Hackney Showroom | September 2023

Assistant Director: WE NEED NEW NAMES by Mufaro Makubika, dir. Monique Touko (UK Tour) | New Perspectives & Fifth Word in association with Brixton House | April - June 2023.

Director: BLACK PERFORMANCE LAB | ICTheatre Brighton | Sep—Oct 2022.

Associate Producer: SATURN RETURNS by Sonny Nwachukwu (Gateway Arts) | Southbank Centre (Unlimited Festival) & Northern School of Contemporary Dance (Colour Festival) | September - October 2022.

Assistant Producer: TAKING PART 25: OF THE CUT by Yasmin Joseph | Young Vic x TEA Films | July - August 2022.

Co-Producer: DEAR BLK LDN | Theatre Peckham | April 2022.

Co-Producer: YV: MAKERS MOTIVE | Young Vic | March 2022.

Assistant Producer: FIVE PLAYS | Young Vic | December 2021.

Assistant Producer: YV UNPACKED: LOVE REIGN by Shereen Jasmin Phillips | Young Vic | October 2021.

Actor: NETWORK | University of Sussex (short film, dir. Luke Forkes) | December 2020.

Actor: THE CRUCIBLE | Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (University of Sussex) | September 2019-March 2020.

Actor: BUGZY MALONE | Graveney School | March 2018.

Actor: SINGIN' IN THE RAIN | Graveney School | March 2017.

Actor/Performer: TAKING PART PARALLEL: MACBETH | Young Vic | January 2015.

Training

TALAWA THEATRE COMPANY (Jan 2024) | Directors’ Toolkit, with Daniel Bailey

YOUNG VIC THEATRE (Jan 2024) | Directing Actors for the Stage, with Kwame Owusu

ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND (Dec 2023 - Present) | Developing Your Creative Practice

NEW DIORAMA / GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DRAMA / UPROOT PRODUCTIONS (Dec 2023) | The Knot

TALAWA THEATRE COMPANY (Oct - Dec 2023) | Creating Routes (Global Majority Facilitator) Training Programme

YOUNG VIC THEATRE (Oct 2022 - Jun 2023) | Fresh Direction, mentored by Nimmo Ismael, Monique Touko & Taio Lawson

THEATRE PECKHAM (Feb - Apr 2022) | Young Producers Programme.

YOUNG VIC THEATRE (Sep 2021 - Sep 2022) | Taking Part & Creators Program Young Associate.

UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX (2018–2021) | Drama and Film Studies BA (Joint Honours) | First Class.