Rate My Professor Richard Jordan

His research focuses on scriptwriting, theatre and digital performance, posthumanism, and contemporary drama. Jordan is authoring a monograph, Posthuman Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2025), examining plays by Caryl Churchill, Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Nottage, Jordan Harrison, and Manjula Padmanabhan that address technological acceleration's ethical implications. Notable publications encompass plays Machina (Playlab, 2014) and 25 Down (Playlab, 2009); peer-reviewed articles including “Reframing Humanist Tragedy in The Tiniest Thing” (CounterText, 2022), “Distributed Agencies in Dramatic Form: A Posthuman Perspective on Lucy Prebble's The Sugar Syndrome and Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone” (Modern Drama, 2021), and “Digital Alchemy: The Posthuman Drama of Adam J. A. Cass’s I Love You, Bro” (Australasian Drama Studies, 2014). In 2016, he founded the Incubator New Writing Program with Playlab in Brisbane, mentoring twelve emerging playwrights. He teaches units on theatrical modernism, Australian theatre, dramaturgy, playwriting, screenwriting, and public speaking, and has presented conference papers and guest lectures on posthuman theatre topics.