Jordana Belaiche
Writer Dramaturg Director Performer ProducerJordana Belaiche is a British-Algerian writer and performer based in London.
Jordana trained as a dramaturg at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on the MA Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy course and at SOAS, University of London. Jordana began writing for stage in 2017, when her first play Knowledge is Power won the Best New Writing prize at the London Student Drama Festival and went on to receive a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the same year. Since then, their work has been received in several London theatres including the Pleasance, the Courtyard, the Almeida and the Golden Goose. Last autumn Jordana's play get it off yer chest received a debut performance at the Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays. Their drag character, Little Lord Fondleroy, was developed as part of the Soho Theatre Drag and Cabaret lab in 2020, they regularly perform with Interlude choir and are a member of musical theatre improv troupe, Adlibretto. Jordana has been published in Red Pepper Magazine, Palm Sized Press and Samfiftyfour literary magazine and is co-founder of Don't Tell the Village Elders Collective, a network of BPOC and queer spiritual practitioners looking to reclaim practices from capitalism and colonialism. She was producer, co-host and editor of the first season of 'Hitched on the Astral', a podcast dedicated to matchmaking through the lens of natal astrology, with Lucy Porter. She is an active member of the Last Breath Society, established by Martin O'Brien and is part of Complicité's Grief Chorus.
Credits
DirectingShow
W*nkers and W*nkers Online Theatre/Venue Length of Run Year
by Jordana Belaiche Theatre Deli 2 Performances 2020
and Bel Parker No Bounds Radio
True Love’s Kiss By
Katerina Tinnirello Savvas Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 1 Performance 2019
Walthamstow
Serve and Protect by Southwark Playhouse 1 Performance 2018
Lynn Evertowski
Bleach by Beatrice Bove New Studio, 2 Performances 2018
Royal Central School of
Speech and Drama
TBC By Jordana Belaiche Pleasance Theatre/ 2 Performances 2018
Duchess Theatre
Knowledge is Power by The Annexe, Paradise in 3 weeks 2017
Jordana Belaiche the Vaults, Paradise Green,
Edinburgh Fringe Festival/
Pleasance Theatre, London/
The Courtyard Theatre, London
Low Level Panic by SOAS Drama 1 Week 2016
Clair McIntyre
Love’s Labour’s Lost by SOAS Drama 1 Week 2016
William Shakespeare
Shampoo by SOAS Drama 2 Performances 2015
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Assistant Directing
Show Theatre/Venue Length of Run Year
Different Sand Bunker Theatre 4 Performances 2019
Dir. Nadira Amrani
The Lady From Maxim’s Theatro Technis 1 month 2019
Dir.Gavin McAlinden
Corresponding with Ghosts Volsbühne, Berlin 3 performances 2018
Dir. Samantha Jayne Williams
Etcetera Theatre 1 Week 2018
The Mechanicals
Dir. Bryony Ruddock
TBC By Jordana Belaiche Pleasance/Duchess 2 Performances 2018
Dir. Radihka Goswami
Training
MA Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy, The Royal Central School of Speech and DramaSoho Theatre's Drag and Cabaret Lab (2020)
The Hive, Broken Silence Theatre
Memento Mori, Joanna Ebenstein and Morbid Anatomy
The Last Breath Society
Grief Chorus, Complicite
Location
LondonExperience
2-5 years
Art forms / Disciplines
- Comedy
- Literature
- Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
- Music
- Radio/Audio
- Theatre / Live perfomance
What I do
- Devising
- Dialect / Voice Direction
- Dramaturgy
- Facilitating
- Music - Can learn by ear
- Music - Can Read
- Music - Singing
- Performance Art
- Performing
- Producing
- Site Responsive/Immersive
- Street Theatre
- Teaching / Coaching
- Theatre making
- Verbatim theatre
- Working with disabled artists
- Working with young people
- Working within a Community / with community participants
- Workshopping & Development
- Writing
