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Jordan Hall

JORDAN HALL  

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Jordan Hall is an emerging artist whose work has been dubbed "stellar, insightful" by Plank Magazine, "thoughtful" by CBC Radio, and "vivid, memorable" by NOW. Her writing for the stage includes her short works Red, The Second Last Man on Earth, annie & Izzy, and asleep at the Wheel, as well as her full-length play, Kayak, which recently won Samuel French's 2010 Canadian Playwright's competition. Jordan's plays have been produced across the country, most recently at the 2010 Femfest and Summerworks Festivals. She is developing her newest work, Travelling Light, as an associate with the Playwrights Theatre Centre. Her first short film, Love Sucks, is currently in production in Toronto, and her second, Run Dry, is one of the winners of the 2011 Crazy8s short film competition. as a dramaturg, Jordan recently worked on the Dora-nominated Belle of Winnipeg with Keystone Theatre, sits on the Board of Foundry Theatre, and is a mentor for UBC's Booming Ground program.

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below is a list of Jordan Hall's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Asleep At The Wheel         From Grace         Kayak         Lifeboat         Red         Second Last Man On Earth, The         Smacks In The City         Storying Back         Twenty-One Rants About Working In A Drugstore

Asleep At The Wheel

Synopsis:
Trapped in a tower and threatened with death, Stella and arabella have made a pact to save each other's lives. But with arabella's sixteenth birthday fast approaching, a prince in the balance, and happily ever after just a spindle's throw away: It's every princess and miller's daughter for herself in this postmodern fable.

Notes:
Tagline: Happily Ever After is starting to look Grimm.

1st Produced:
The alumnae Theatre, Toronto    Mar 2008

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Thriller/Fairytale

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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From Grace

Synopsis:
With the world about to end, Lucifer-exiled forever from Heaven after a really nasty breakup with the archangel Michael-is hanging out in a convenience store looking to score some twinkies; not to mention giving Tracy, the night-clerk who just happens to be a direct female-line descendant of Eve, a serious case of the heebie-jeebies. When Michael descends to Earth to bargain for her help in stopping the coming apocalypse, Luci makes herself a devil's bargain: She'll help him save the world if it gets her back into Heaven. While they wrangle over original sin as a relationship deal-breaker, live angel-wrestling, and miracles in the chip aisle, a seemingly innocuous series events in the store spirals the world closer and closer to doom.

Notes:
Subsequent to winning the 2002 Original Works Festival At McMaster University, From Grace was read As part of the 2002 Brave New Works series At Theatre Aquarius. For Production Rights, please contact performance@jordanhall.ca

1st Produced:
Robinson Memorial Theatre, Hamilton, Ontario    2002

Organisations:
McMaster Original Works

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Kayak

Jordan Hall
alone on a vast stretch of water, annie Iversen recounts the strange chain of events that left her stranded in her son's old kayak. a doting suburban mother, annie is blindsided when her son, Peter, falls in love with Julie, a passionate environmental activist. Unable to reconcile herself to Julie's radical worldview, annie struggles desperately to keep Peter from falling further into the young woman's dangerous world. Climate change, S'mores, SUVs, and Noah's ark are all onstage as annie sets out to save her son, and unwittingly throws herself into the path of events larger than she ever could have imagined. Touching and provocative, Kayak invites us all to confront our choices in the landscape of the growing environmental crisis.

Notes:
Winner of the 2010 Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest

1st Produced:
Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace    06 Aug 2010

Organisations:
Original Norwegian, Summerworks 2010

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lifeboat

Synopsis:
Inspired by alfred Hitchcock's film, this contemporary political thriller finds eight survivors of a terrorist attack adrift at sea. amongst the survivors: a famous war correspondent, an industrialist, an arab-American nurse, and one of the terrorists responsible for the attack. With supplies and hopes of rescue dwindling, individual agendas, fears and prejudices begin to emerge. The politics of fear and war that surrounded the attack have followed the survivors onto this tiny boat, and the cost of their survival may be truly horrific.

Notes:
written by Jordan Hall, Tommy Taylor And C S Legacy. Tag Line:The Price of Apathy in Public Affairs is to be Ruled by Evil Men. Plato. For Production Rights, please contact performance@jordanhall.ca

1st Produced:
Helen Phelan Gardiner Theatre, Toronto, Ontario    2006

Organisations:
Forward Theatre/Toronto Fringe Festival 2006

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Music:
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Genre:
Thriller

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Red

Jordan Hall
Trapped inside the belly of a wolf, Rose contemplates the twisted tale that led her there, and the terrible things she may have to do to escape. Little Red Riding Hood is turned inside out in this post-modern fable, and if you're a woman, you're gonna bleed.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Brave New Play Rites, Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre, University of British Columbia    08 Apr 2010

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1st Published:
in Out on a Limb: Short Plays by New Playwrights, Signature Editions (October 30, 2011)   978-1897109-55-7

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1 - 2            Other:  -

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Second Last Man On Earth, The

Synopsis:
Unappreciated accountant andrew has been in love with Maddy since the day that she was hired at his office, but the time was never right to ask her out. First she was getting over a break up. Then her friend Susan wouldn't leave them alone on a coffee break. and finally, of course, there was the apocalypse. It wouldn't have been so bad- except for Jackson. Tall, dark and "wizard with a fire-axe," Jackson saves them both from certain doom, and it's just natural that Maddy should fall into the big lummox's arms. Now they're trapped together in an incredibly awkward post-Doomsday version of Three's Company, and the guy who never got to the top of the rope at gym class is going to have to tell the girl of his dreams how he feels. . . before time runs out.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bread and Circus, Toronto    01 Apr 2010

Organisations:
Monkeyman Productions, The Banana Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Horror/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Smacks In The City

Synopsis:
Tensions rise during a late night on set with four very stressed leading ladies: The prima donna doesn't want to do her own stunts, the mother needs to get home to her children, the struggling actress would love to just get some rest, and the aging sex-pot seems to have bedded a veritable alphabet of stars. With the filming fast becoming a blooper-reel that won't end, the night becomes a showcase of all the ways that women use femininity as a weapon. Until the girls just snap and start using real ones. . .

Notes:
Smacks in the City won Fight Directors Canada's 2005 New Play Contest And was produced As part of FDC'a 2005 Fight Night. For Production Rights, please contact performance@jordanhall.ca

1st Produced:
George Brown Black Box Theatre, Toronto, Ontario    2005

Organisations:
Fight Night Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
comedy parody Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Storying Back

Synopsis:
Gerry, a struggling playwright, is desperately trying to finish his most recent work, but a love-triangle between his friend Dave, their roommate Erin and himself is encroaching on his writing time. Not that the writing is going very well: Laurence, his main character, is picky about his lines, his clothes and anything that might make him appear less than a brilliant intellectual. The other characters in the play despise Laurence, and there doesn't seem to be any way of both pleasing the egomaniac and keeping the rest of them in the piece. Gerry just doesn't have the time to smooth imaginary egos, not while listening to Erin's rage about the pointlessness of her job, and Dave's quiet despair about his failure as a painter. as the deadline approaches, Laurence's demands become more and more outrageous; the secondary characters stage a coup; and the romance between friends takes over the playwright's imagination. Literally.

Notes:
Subsequent to winning the 2000 Original Works Festival At McMaster University, Storying Back was read As part of the 2000 Brave New Works series At Theatre Aquarius.For Production Rights, please contact performance@jordanhall.ca

1st Produced:
Robinson Memorial Theatre, Hamilton, Ontario    2000

Organisations:
McMaster Original Works

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Twenty-One Rants About Working In A Drugstore

Synopsis:
Numbers has been drudging nights Tweedmuir's Drugstore for six-and-a-half years. Her boss is crooked, her co-workers are inept, and the customers range from cantankerous to skin-crawling. While she struggles with insomnia and applies chaos theory to the paperwork, her head cashier is staging music videos; the trainee won't stop speaking in Shakespearean verse; and a clairvoyant telemarketer keeps leaving sinister messages. all that is about to change, though, when Jack, drunk, miserable and fired from his third job in a month, decides he's going to rob the place. Jack isn't any more successful at armed robbery than he is at steady employment, but his bungled attempt quickly reveals the unexpected: Numbers is. She's been ripping the place off for years to pay for school. With romantic sparks flying, co-workers panicking and the police closing in, she makes Jack an unwilling accomplice in her bid to escape from the police, her job, and maybe even capitalism itself.

Notes:
Tag Line:Underemployed. Overeducated. And About to Get Even. For Production Rights, please contact performance@jordanhall.ca

1st Produced:
Robert Gill Theatre, Toronto, Ontario    2004

Organisations:
Toronto Fringe Festival 2004

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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