Jordan Richard News

Co-Artistic Directors Mark Barford, Connor Delves, and Jillian Geurts are now accepting submissions for the Australian Theatre Festival NYC 2024 New Play Award, offering a cash prize of $20,000 USD.

Winter Film Awards International Film Festival returns to NYC for its 12th year, celebrating diversity and inclusivity. The festival will showcase 82 films from around the world, with a special emphasis on women and under-represented filmmakers.

Co-Artistic Directors Mark Barford, Connor Delves and Jillian Geurts announced Sally Alrich-Smythe the winner of the 2023 New Play Award for 'Wavelength'. Wendy Mocke was named runner-up for 'REALish'.

Co-Artistic Directors Mark Barford, Connor Delves and Jillian Geurts have announced five finalists for the Australian Theatre Festival NYC 2023 New Play Award.

Guaranteed to get the blood pumping and open your Chakras so you're ready for a day on the Fringe, Yoga with Jillian, a brand-new screwball comedy by Lia Romeo opens at the Pleasance on 2 August and promises to give your chuckle muscles a good workout.

After winning the Critic's Award for Best Play, and the Theatre Weekly Award for Best Solo Performer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, and following a run in Australia and a UK tour, Philip Stokes' play Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me will return to the Pleasance from 2 August. Produced by Lawrence Batley Theatre, Richard Jordan Productions, 412, Ketchup Productions in association with The Pleasance.

Elizabeth A. Davis, who performed pregnant during the entire Broadway run of 1776, gave birth to a baby girl one day after the show's closing! 

Co-Artistic Directors Mark Barford, Connor Delves and Jillian Geurts have announced Melissa-Kelly Franklin the Winner of the 2022 New Play Award for 'Paradise Lost'. Jordan Shea was named Runner-Up for 'They're Not Listening'.

Co-Artistic Directors Mark Barford, Connor Delves and Jillian Geurts has announced six finalists for the Australian Theatre Festival NYC 2022 New Play Award.

Award-winning writer and director Philip Stokes (Heroin(e) For Breakfast) returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the world premiere of Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me at the Pleasance Dome from 3 August. Produced by Lawrence Batley Theatre in association with KETCHUP productions and Richard Jordan Productions the show is performed by Jack Stokes in his Edinburgh debut. 

Co-Artistic Directors Mark Barford, Connor Delves and Jillian Geurts today announced the Australian Theatre Festival NYC 2022 New Play Award. 

For the 2022 Adelaide Fringe, Holden Street Theatres will present a new initiative entitled HST On-Screen.HST On Screen will see four acclaimed specially filmed productions from the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe played on a large Novatech supplied LG 75” LCD screen in a ten seat gold class- style cinema lounge.

The Australian Theatre Festival is an annual celebration of Australian stories and artists in New York City that included three staged readings of Australian plays, including the 2020 New Play Award Winner, The Tiniest Thing by Richard Jordan, a cabaret at The Green Room 42, an industry panel and a community networking event.

On December 10, 2021 the premiere in-person AUSTRALIAN THEATRE FESTIVAL NYC, Co-Artistic Directors Mark Barford, Connor Delves & Jillian Geurts, launches.

  The full line up is also announced for Comedians Telling Shed Stories as host Rachel Fairburn is joined by comedians Leila Navabi, Jen Ives, and Ivo Graham with musical accompaniment from Will Duggan.

Co-Artistic Directors Mark Barford, Connor Delves and Jillian Geurts today announced the Australian Theatre Festival NYC 2021 New Play Award. The award is generously supported by Andrew J. Martin-Weber and Shane & Cathryn Brennan.

As we find ourselves in the midst of the holiday calendar, a normally busy time for producing organizations across the world feels very different this year.

Award-winning theatre company, Wildcard, have today announced 'Wildcard: Full House', a six-month programme with a focus on supporting emerging artists, digitally.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced the finalists for the Queensland Premier's Drama Award (QPDA) 2020-21. Artists Anna Loren, Maddie Nixon and Steve Pirie have been selected from the record-breaking field of 221 entries. This marks the largest intake of new dramatic works in the Award's 17-year history, with entries received from every state and territory in Australia.

The new Let It Be UK Tour opens this week - so cast took time out of rehearsals to visit the place where it all began, Liverpool. After a successful Autumn 2018 tour, Let It Be: A Celebration Of The Music Of The Beatles goes back on tour with its updated show for Spring 2019.