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Jordan Prosser is a writer, filmmaker and performer from Naarm/Melbourne.
In 2022, he won the Peter Carey Short Story Award. Soon after, his debut novel was acquired by the University of Queensland Press (UQP). Big Time was published in July 2024, with The Age calling it “a rollicking ride told by a master storyteller.”
His writing has appeared in Meanjin, and he is a regular contributor to the Guardian, Spectrum and Australian Book Review.
Jordan’s films have screened at festivals across Australia and the world. In 2009 he attended the Rencontres Henri Langlois Student Film Festival in Poitiers, France, and in 2013 he was a participant in the Melbourne International Film Festival's Accelerator Program with the short film Hungry Man. His 2016 film Tanglewood received completion funding through Screen Australia’s Hot Shots program. In 2018, he won the Shore Scripts international screenwriting prize and in 2019 he won first place in the Horror/Thriller category of the Slamdance Screenplay Competition. He co-wrote the script for Justin Dix’s Blood Vessel, starring Nathan Philips and Alyssa Sutherland, released worldwide and acquired by Shudder in 2020. In 2022, Jordan was one of nine writers selected for Impact Australia, an intensive eight-week screenwriting incubator run by Imagine Entertainment.
The Landlords, co-written and directed with Sam Burns-Warr, won Best Original Work and Best Ensemble Cast at the 2007 Canberra Area Theatre Awards and was restaged at Melbourne Fringe. Throughout 2011 and 2012, Jordan joined a team of Australian playwrights in adapting seminal Japanese pulp novel Battle Royale into a site-specific performance for contemporary Filipino theatre collective Sipat Lawin. This led to the creation of award-winning documentary theatre piece Kids Killing Kids, premiering at Melbourne Fringe in 2012 before touring for Next Wave Festival. Jordan joined long-term collaborator David Finnigan in London in 2018, where they created and presented a new work at NESTA’s FutureFest, the futuristic sci-fi cop drama CrimeForce: LoveTeam. Across 2020-2022, he and Finnigan re-teamed on the original online performance work Broken Hearts 2035: A post-pandemic romance, took CrimeForce to Melbourne Knowledge Week at Arts House, and devised a new interactive performance about the future of the oceans for the University of Tasmania, titled Full Metal Aquatic.
As an actor, Jordan has appeared in Jonathan M. Schiff’s The Elephant Princess, as a voice actor in Happy Feet 2, in the short films Shoplifting, Northkids and Body Movie, and in Alice Foulcher and Gregory Erdstein’s festival favourite That’s Not Me. For a very brief stint, he was the face of Holden. He toured Australia as an understudy then main cast member of the West End comedy hit, The Play That Goes Wrong, and rejoined the team for the 2018-2019 international tour of Peter Pan Goes Wrong. In 2020 he appeared in Hannah Camilleri’s web series Little Shits.
Jordan has directed commercials for Strike Bowling Bar and La Porchetta; acted as a creative producer and copywriter on campaigns for the RSPCA, Victorian SES, the Department of Health and the Australian Government; written, produced and directed the online trailer for the PostSecret app; and 1st Assistant Directed an independent Australian feature of adaptation of Crime & Punishment. He has worked as a freelance digital and UX copywriter, content designer and conversational designer.
Jordan is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film & Television. He is represented by Writ Large Management in Los Angeles and a4 Literary in Australia.
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