Jordan Richards

I am a professional actor and I've been writing plays for over a decade. I would say my style ranges from magical realism dramas to absurd nihilistic satires.

I am a professional actor and I've been writing plays for over a decade. I would say my style ranges from magical realism dramas to absurd nihilistic satires.

Scripts

HOLY FUCKING SHIT {a play designed for a different reality}

by Jordan Richards

Cast Size
8—10000000
Genre
adaptation,
adventure,
biography,
comedy,
commedia dell'arte,
dark comedy,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
faith-based,
fantasy,
farce,
horror,
immersive,
melodrama,
movement/physical,
musical,
opera,
pageant,
parody/spoof,
period,
political,
romantic comedy,
satire,
science fiction,
tragedy,
verse

This play is a new branch of the contemporary avant-garde. This play is impossible to stage. Please please please please PLEASE: someone prove me wrong.

This play is a new branch of the contemporary avant-garde. This play is impossible to stage. Please please please please PLEASE: someone prove me wrong.

Can I not save but one?

by Jordan Richards

Cast Size
1—100
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
commedia dell'arte,
dark comedy,
experimental,
fantasy,
farce,
holiday,
horror,
immersive,
melodrama,
movement/physical,
musical,
science fiction,
tragedy,
verse

A poetic remastering of an old classic club banger: "A Dream Within A Dream", by Edgar Allen Poe.

A poetic remastering of an old classic club banger: "A Dream Within A Dream", by Edgar Allen Poe.

Heavenly Bodies

by Jordan Richards

Cast Size
7—12
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
commedia dell'arte,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
fantasy,
horror,
movement/physical,
musical,
mystery/thriller,
romantic comedy,
science fiction,
tragedy

A teenager on the verge of adulthood. Failing at everything around him, all the time. George Tweed turns to some pretty dark places to find peace in this Magical Realism Horror Comedy.

A teenager on the verge of adulthood. Failing at everything around him, all the time. George Tweed turns to some pretty dark places to find peace in this Magical Realism Horror Comedy.

Another Minute

by Jordan Richards

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
fantasy,
movement/physical,
romantic comedy,
satire

Nina and Sam are on their first date. Things go off the rails a little and what ensues is a mix of tragic and surreal.

Nina and Sam are on their first date. Things go off the rails a little and what ensues is a mix of tragic and surreal.

Jumping Off

by Jordan Richards

Cast Size
5—15
Genre
comedy,
commedia dell'arte,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
immersive,
melodrama,
movement/physical,
parody/spoof,
political,
satire,
tragedy

One actor tries his best to give you the show you deserve. But then again, do you really deserve it? Watch as the show will constantly grapple with its audience, until they come to a definition of what they're both looking for exactly.

One actor tries his best to give you the show you deserve. But then again, do you really deserve it? Watch as the show will constantly grapple with its audience, until they come to a definition of what they're both looking for exactly.

Unnamed Bunker

by Jordan Richards

Cast Size
3
Genre
adventure,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
horror,
movement/physical,
mystery/thriller,
science fiction,
tragedy

There is a torn up world outside. But all we know is this bunker. Only one issue, someone in this bunker is mad. But is he really mad, or is something bigger going on?

There is a torn up world outside. But all we know is this bunker. Only one issue, someone in this bunker is mad. But is he really mad, or is something bigger going on?

Study Group Hooray (A Pandemic Zoom Horror)

by Jordan Richards

2
Cast Size
3—5
Genre
comedy,
commedia dell'arte,
dark comedy,
experimental,
horror,
immersive,
movement/physical,
mystery/thriller,
romantic comedy,
science fiction,
tragedy,
zoom

Three friends log on to study for their calculus final, when one of them realizes theres a secretive 4th member on the zoom, one that poses a scary and potentially deadly threat. What does it want?

Three friends log on to study for their calculus final, when one of them realizes theres a secretive 4th member on the zoom, one that poses a scary and potentially deadly threat. What does it want?

Self-Editing

by Jordan Richards

1
Cast Size
4—100
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
fantasy,
horror,
movement/physical,
romantic comedy,
satire,
tragedy

An absurdist exploration into the idea of human presentation and why we're all so afraid to be ourselves.

An absurdist exploration into the idea of human presentation and why we're all so afraid to be ourselves.

Expectations

by Jordan Richards

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
immersive,
romantic comedy,
tragedy

This is a show about 2 characters, Boy and Girl. As their lives are a perpetual rambling of meet-cutes followed by heartbreak, all being dictated by the slightly omnipotent narrator. Will they ever win? Or will they stay trapped in this cycle of true human despair.

This is a show about 2 characters, Boy and Girl. As their lives are a perpetual rambling of meet-cutes followed by heartbreak, all being dictated by the slightly omnipotent narrator. Will they ever win? Or will they stay trapped in this cycle of true human despair.

I Would Ask You

by Jordan Richards

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
young audiences

NOTE! THE "SCRIPT SAMPLE" FILE IS A SHORTENED AND UPDATED VERSION OF THE SCRIPT. YOU MAY CHOOSE EITHER OF THE TWO VERSIONS YOU PREFER!

Dave and Greg are a couple of bros, but things get messy when it turns out one of the bros is a little more sensitive then he's let on, and now it's starting to explode out of him.

NOTE! THE "SCRIPT SAMPLE" FILE IS A SHORTENED AND UPDATED VERSION OF THE SCRIPT. YOU MAY CHOOSE EITHER OF THE TWO VERSIONS YOU PREFER!

Dave and Greg are a couple of bros, but things get messy when it turns out one of the bros is a little more sensitive then he's let on, and now it's starting to explode out of him.