Anna Jordan

Anna Jordan is a playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Her play Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

Her other plays include: Lost Atoms (Frantic Assembly, Curve Mayflower Southampton & Lyric Hammersith Theatre, 2025); We Anchor in Hope (Bunker Theatre, London, 2019); The Unreturning (Frantic Assembly & Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2018); Pop Music (Paines Plough & Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 2018); Chicken Shop (Park Theatre, 2014); Freak (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 2014); Closer To God (Best Play and Audience Award at the Offcut Festival, 2009) and Just For Fun – Totally Random (Best New Writing at the Lost One Act Festival, 2009).

As a director her work has included Crystal Springs (Eureka, San Francisco, 2014) and Tomorrow I’ll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey at the National Theatre Shed as part of the 2013 Connections Festival.

She is Artistic Director of Without a Paddle Theatre, Associate Director at Theatre503, London, and teaches acting and playwriting.