Ep 1: Jordan Langford - Look Inwards To Look Outwards

What To Expect In This Episode:Jordan's pathway from performer to directorThe importance of adaptability in processDirecting as a trust-based jobBalancing multiple roles at once (director, intimacy director, resident director) through a heart-led approachThe necessary role mentorship and connecting artists plays in creating a healthy theatre ecosystemThe challenges of application processes and “climbing the career ladder” so-to-speakNetworking as a constant movable thing - and viewing your peers as the future of the industry.About The Guest:Jordan Langford (he/him) is a UK based Director, Award-Winning Choreographer and Intimacy Professional working across theatre, film and television.Directing credits include Loop (Leeds Playhouse), Build a Rocket (GMFringe Award Nominee - UK Tour and Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Flutter-Bye (Ironworks Studios, Brighton), Out of Time (Union Theatre), Riddles and Romance (Underbelly Boulevard Soho), Kerry Ellis Does Christmas (Leatherhead Theatre), and the development and workshops of the new play Happy at Sheffield Crucible and of the new musical At Last, It’s Summer, culminating in a concept album recorded at Abbey Road Studios and Capitol Records, Los Angeles.Associate Director credits include the European premiere of If/Then (Savoy Theatre), The Tempest (Theatre Space North East, also Movement Director), At Last, It’s Summer (London Palladium, also Choreographer), The Passenger (Manchester Jewish Museum), and Who Killed Marlyn (Emerald Theatre, also Intimacy Director and Resident Director).As an Intimacy Director and Coordinator, Jordan’s credits span theatre, television and film, including Thespians: Greece The Musical (Mischief Theatre - UK Tour), productions for Mercury Theatre Colchester, and screen projects for the BBC, Clerkenwell Films, Amazon Prime/NFTS and the BFI.Originally from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Jordan trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, completed an MA in Directing at Rose Bruford College, and was part of the first graduating cohort of Intimacy Coordinators from the National Film and Television School.Jordan’s Shared Resource“If you’re happy in your personal life– the professional life is tied in with that as a creative. Because you’re making stuff based on your experience…. Make sure you have other things that you’re exploring because that is what makes you a director. You’re able to facilitate life on stage– show life on stage. You have to be in life. You can’t not be in life, you have to be a part of— you can’t be a someone looking through a window at life. You have to be in life.”Linkswww.jordan-langford.comInsta: @jordanlangford1“Who Killed Marlyn” Emerald Theatre 15 August - 29 October https://www.whokilledmarilyn.uk/Brick Lane Music Hall: https://www.bricklanemusichall.co.uk/Mercury Theatre Creators Programs: (for artists based in East Anglia, UK)Producers - https://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/mercurycreatives/mercury-producers-development-programme/Directors - https://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/mercurycreatives/mercury-creatives-directors-programme/