Work with Actors Theatre

Richard Jordan/Richard Jordan Productions is a TONY, Olivier, EMMY, and 17-time Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning creative production company under the artistic leadership of British producer, Richard Jordan. Based in London, the company was founded in 1998 and enjoys associations with many of the world’s leading theaters and arts organizations, including a long association with the Pleasance and Edinburgh Fringe. Described by The Stage newspaper “as one of the UK’s most prolific theatre producers” and named seven times in their annual list of the top 100 UK theater professionals, Richard Jordan Productions has produced over 260 productions (over 30 New York presentations) in the UK as well as 28 other countries including 90 world premieres and 91 North American, UK or Australian premieres by new and established writers, artists, and companies. Past productions have won a number of major awards including: the Laurence Olivier Award; 17 Scotsman Fringe Firsts; 10 Total Theatre Awards; 2 Herald Angel Awards; Emmy Award; Off-West End Award; US Black Alliance Award; 2 Jeff Awards; Obie Award; 3 Helen Hayes Awards; John Gardner Award for Best New American Play; Tony Award (along with eleven other Tony nominations); and Drama Desk, Drama League, New York Critics; Broadway.com and Outer Critic Circle Best New Play Awards. Most recently the company was recipient of the 2025 Adelaide Critics Circe award for Best Play and Best Digital/Immersive Theatre Production. New writing and musical theatre specialist Richard Jordan was the first recipient of the TIF/Society of London Theatre Producers Award. In 2013, he became the first British producer to have won every notable Broadway and off-Broadway Best New Play Award. For his work in human rights and freedom of expression, bringing to the stage voices from different communities and raising awareness to their associated issues Richard’s productions have received two Amnesty International Awards and the US Black Alliance Award. In 2022 he became the first international producer to present work inside Ukraine since the outbreak of war with the Russian Federation in a collaboration with its national arts festival which brought art and humanitarian aid into the country. In 2024 he celebrated a twenty-five association with Edinburgh’s Pleasance venues with whom he has presented and co-produced many productions including Miriam Margolyes’ Dickens’ Women; My Name is Gideon; Krapp 39; The Art of Falling Apart; Itsoseng; Victor Spinetti’s A Very Private Diary (Revisited); Hirsch; Alphonse; Lash; Kafka and Son; The Q Brothers Othello the Remix; XXXO; God’s Official; Bitch Boxer; Ali J; The Adventure; Dylan Thomas: Return Journey; Die Roten Punkte: Robot/Lion Tour; Trump Lear; Heroin(e) for Breakfast; Jesus, Jane, Mother and Me; Shellshocked; Fool’s Paradise; Yoga with Jillian;Happy Hour; The Truman Capote Talk Show; Fool’s Paradise and #CHARLOTTESVILLE.