Jordan Hall is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work focuses on the exploration of genre, socio-political inequality, ecological crisis, and the creation of deeply-compelling female protagonists. Her work has been dubbed “fresh and funny” by The Daily Mail, “sharp and witty” by Broadway World, and “a zesty treat” by The Telegraph.
Her first full-length play, Kayak, won Samuel French’s Canadian Playwrights Competition, and has been produced to critical acclaim across North America. Subsequent plays include How to Survive an Apocalypse (Flying Start 2016, Samuel French 2018), and A Brief History of Human Extinction (with Mind of a Snail Puppet Theatre). She has been an Associate at Playwright’s Theatre Centre, and her work has been supported by Pi Theatre, Up in the Air Theatre and by grants from the British Columbia Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. She is currently a commissioned artist with The Only Animal's Artist Brigade.
As a screenwriter, Jordan is best known for creating the cult-hit webseries Carmilla (Winner: CSA, Digital Fiction, with over 70 million views on YouTube). She was Carmilla's lead writer for three seasons and the subsequent movie. She has been a winner of the Crazy8s Short Film Competition, a recipient of a Corus Writer's Apprentice Fellowship at Banff, and is an alumnus of the Pacific Screenwriting Program’s Scripted Series Lab. Recent credits include story editor and writer on Family Law, and her supernatural drama Chaos Theory, on option with Seven24. She teaches screenwriting at Capilano University.
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