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Jordan Prosser is a writer, director, and performer from Naarm/Melbourne.
His films have screened at festivals across Australia and the world. In 2009 he was invited to attend 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 the Screen Australia Hot Shots program. In 2018, his feature screenplay for Hungry Man won the prestigious Shore Scripts international screenwriting prize. In 2019 he served as script editor and story consultant on the VicScreen/Stan development fund project, Bulldog’s Alley, and his feature screenplay Cherry took out 1st place in the Horror/Thriller category of the Slamdance Screenplay Competition. He co-wrote the screenplay 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. That same year, he won the Peter Carey Short Story Award, was published in Meanjin literary journal, and had his debut novel, Big Time, acquired by the University of Queensland Press. It will be published in 2024.
In 2007 he directed, co-wrote and co-starred in the The Landlords, which garnered awards for Best Original Work and Best Ensemble Cast at the Canberra Area Theatre Awards before being restaged at the 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Throughout 2011 and 2012, Jordan joined a team of Australian playwrights commissioned to adapt seminal Japanese pulp novel Battle Royale into a site-specific, interactive performance for contemporary Filipino theatre collective Sipat Lawin. The media furor and controversy surrounding the production led to the creation of award-winning documentary theatre piece Kids Killing Kids at the 2012 Melbourne Fringe Festival, which was then remounted at the 2013 Next Wave Festival. In 2018 Jordan joined long-term collaborator David Finnigan in London for the creation and performance of a new work at NESTA’s FutureFest, the futuristic sci-fi cop drama CrimeForce: LoveTeam. And in 2019, he performed a reworked version of 2011’s Bringing Some Gum to a Knife Fight at the Melbourne Fringe Festival with Sam Burns-Warr. In 2020/2022, he re-teamed with David Finnigan, creating the original online performance work Broken Hearts 2035: A post-pandemic romance, bringing CrimeForce to Melbourne Knowledge Week at Arts House, and devising 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 2017 festival favourite That’s Not Me. He toured Australia as part of the company 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 creative producer and copywriter on campaigns for the RSPCA, Victorian SES, the Department of Health and the Australian Government; wrote, produced and directed the online trailer for the PostSecret app; and 1st Assistant Directed an independent Australian adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime & Punishment. He has worked as a freelance digital and UX copywriter, conversational designer, creative producer, and director, and is a regular contributor to the Australian Book Review.
Jordan attended the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film & Television, completing his Bachelor's degree in 2009, and his Honours year in 2012. He is represented by Writ Large Management in Los Angeles.
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