Jordan Barrow

Jordan is a New York City based actor with a career spanning the Stage, Television, Film, and Voice-over.

Jordan made his Broadway debut as the principal role of Boq in Wicked at the Gershwin theatre. He is the first Black actor to play the role in North America. Prior to that,Jordan played Themba Khenketha, starring alongside Tony® Winner Victoria Clark, Tony® Nominee Montego Glover, and Tony® Winner Judy Kaye in the world premiere Toronto production of the Maltby and Shire musical Sousatzka, directed by Adrian Noble. Additionally, he performed at Barrington Stage in the 2019 Kilroys Award winning world premiere of America V 2.1: The Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro directed by Logan Vaughn and written by Stacey Rose. He was seen in the Ovation® Award winning west coast premiere of Witness Uganda directed by Griffin Matthews. Some of his favorite credits include the world premiere musical Hoagy Carmichael’s Stardust Road at the Temple Theatre, The Tempest at the New York Shakespeare festival at the Delacorte Theatre, and Peter Pan at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
On film, he guest starred on the first season of the critically acclaimed series POSE directed by Ryan Murphy. He is also featured on the Comedy Central series Broad City directed by Lucia Aniello. He can be seen in the feature-length film Amy and Peter are Getting Divorced which was released Summer 2021.
He is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Musical Theatre program and holds a certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Shakespeare in Performance program.