Jordan Stovall

Jordan Stovall

JORDAN STOVALL (they/them) is a playwright, arts administrator, and drag artist (Wanda Whatever). They presently serve as the Director of Outreach & Institutional Partnerships for the Dramatists Guild, where they have worked since 2016. Their plays have been shortlisted and selected as Finalists for the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Festival and Relentless Award, with productions in London and US. As a drag...
JORDAN STOVALL (they/them) is a playwright, arts administrator, and drag artist (Wanda Whatever). They presently serve as the Director of Outreach & Institutional Partnerships for the Dramatists Guild, where they have worked since 2016. Their plays have been shortlisted and selected as Finalists for the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Festival and Relentless Award, with productions in London and US. As a drag artist, they are the founding producer of Time Out London Award-Nominated cabaret Boulangerie; and Fussy, a series of queer community gatherings. They can be seen on “Pistol” (FX, dir. Danny Boyle), and “Meet the Richardsons” (BBC Studios). They have performed in Bushwig Berlin and NYC, Sink the Pink, Clapham Grand, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, and other notable venues across London, NYC, and US.

MFA Writing in the Stage and Broadcast Media, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2019; London, UK). BA Theatre/Performing Arts, University of Tampa (2011; Tampa, FL).
www.jordanstovall.com

Plays

  • Bat Queen!
    A new play paying tribute to the B-movie horror genre days of yore in a big, queer romping tale of bats, bats, puppets, and more bats!
  • Swallowtails
    Four strangers, all queer people of varying life experiences and world outlooks, find themselves in the same holding room without any explanation, escape, or idea as to why. They must band together for strategy and survival in a world designed to keep them quiet.
  • Aviary
    A two-person scene reminiscing on a previous relationship, performed in a cascade by groups of couplings. A minimum of three, with an indeterminate maximum amount of couples. This ten-minute play explores auditory and visual imagery and explore the line between love as an individual and universal experience.
  • Stun
    Stun follows four drag performers – Charmaine, Honey Pot, Misty Tension, and Chastity, all of the house D. Luxe – as they navigate the polarizing labyrinth of family, approval, and self-actualization.
  • The Shades
    Old friends sit around a bonfire in the backyard they spent many of their formative years in together making shadow puppets, talking about dead pop singers, and nostalgically catching up with pre-loaded knowledge from social media. As the night unfolds, the question arises: how great have the rifts between them become, and can they ever get back to the closeness they once had?
    (Note: The actor playing...
    Old friends sit around a bonfire in the backyard they spent many of their formative years in together making shadow puppets, talking about dead pop singers, and nostalgically catching up with pre-loaded knowledge from social media. As the night unfolds, the question arises: how great have the rifts between them become, and can they ever get back to the closeness they once had?
    (Note: The actor playing Ren should be fluent in ASL, and the actor playing Keith should identify as a deaf actor)
  • Corpus
    ​“The city air in February is thick with loneliness, I’ll tell you something.” In a run down New York health spa, Renata, a brash fifty year old Serbian widow, finds an unusual kinship with Matthew, a twenty something who believes he’s being visited by a dead lover. Their contrasting battles with loss shed light on the human condition of grief as they battle ghosts from their past to find freedom.
  • Huron
    Ten-Minute Play:
    Ezra (37) visits his childhood home in Oakland County, Detroit to help his mother, Chava (64), take pictures of her two-story lake house which has gone into foreclosure. Chava clings on to the house's history, memories of her late husband, and makes it clear that she won't go without a fight.
  • The Butterfly & The Astronaut
    Ten Minute Play:
    A bus stop sometime before sunrise in Long Island, NY. Summer. A young ballet dancer, a nurse, and a high wire artist anxiously await a bus that doesn't seem to be coming.