ABOUT
Jordan Shea is an award-winning writer, educator and performer.
His work encompasses theatre, musical theatre, theatre-in-education, documentary theatre, screen and cabaret. A graduate of the VCA (Writing), and the University of Notre Dame (Theatre, English and Education), his credits include: Malacanang Made Us (Queensland Theatre Company), DIWA (Performing Lines), The Wind in the Willows (Kincoppal Rose Bay), One Hour No Oil (co-writer: KXT/kwento), Ate Lovia (kwento/Old Fitz), Kasama Kita (Belvoir 25A), CAGE (Old 505) and The House at Boundary Road, Liverpool (co-writer: Old 505). He has had work developed at Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Australian Plays Transform and Belvoir St Theatre.
His awards include: The Queensland Premier's Drama Award, the Writing NSW Fellowship, the Philip Parsons Fellowship for Playwriting (Belvoir) and he was recently awarded the 2026 National Library of Australia Creative Arts Fellowship, for his play: Joyce and Lorenzo.
Jordan co-wrote Before the Sun Comes Up with Callan Purcell for the NSW Department of Education, which is on the Stage 5 syllabus for Drama. His work has been nominated for multiple Sydney Theatre Awards and Matilda Awards (QLD), and he was the keynote speaker for the 2025 Currency Press Playwright's Festival.
Jordan has been awarded grants from Create NSW, the City of Sydney, and was an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Awardee, where he travelled to the United States to understand Filipino narratives in contemporary American theatre.
As an actor, he appeared as Franz Liebkind in Mel Brooks' The Producers with Joshua Robson Productions/Hayes Theatre Co and Riverside Theatres, Clyde Gabriel in Neglected Musicals' The Witches of Eastwick, Man #1 in I Hate Men. As performed by men for the Newcastle Fringe Festival and Stoddart Entertainment Group, and recently as Andre Thibault in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels for Hayes Theatre Co and Riverside Theatres, in which he also covered the role of Lawrence Jameson.
Jordan is a trained secondary teacher, and has taught and run writing workshops across Sydney for theatre companies, collectives and not-for-profits. He is a proud member of the Australian Writer’s Guild.
For a full CV, please email jordan.shea93@gmail.com.
