Jordan Rosin (they/them+) is a gender-fluid / trans non-binary parent, community member, theatre artist, and educator. 5th generation European-American, Jordan’s ancestors migrated to Turtle Island/North America from Germany, France and other parts of Europe in the early 17th and 20th centuries and have lived on and around the Salish Sea in the territories of the Duwamish, Puyallup, Muckleshoot, and other Coast Salish peoples since approximately the 1900s. Jordan is currently expanding their reputation as a freelance theatrical director and movement/intimacy coordinator/director for film and live theatre while striving to create more gender-inclusive spaces and to embody more restorative ways of being. Jordan has trained at the intersection of arts and social justice with organizations like the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, Nicole Brewer’s Antiracist Theatre, Amplify RJ, Equity Literacy Institute, Theatrical Intimacy Education, Theatre of the Oppressed NYC and more.
Jordan is a co-founder and co-artistic director of the New York City-based physical theatre ensemble, The Ume Group and frequent collaborator with the butoh/physical theatre company Ren Gyo Soh. Their direction and choreography have been seen Off-Off Broadway, as well as across Europe and North America. Their creative practice-led research on the intersection of consent/boundaries, harm reduction, creativity, and collaboration has been presented at dozens of national and international conferences and published in PARtake: The Journal of Performance-as-Research.
As a teaching artist, Jordan has worked for Children’s Circus of Middletown, Tacoma Musical Playhouse, Auburn Regional Theatre, 5th Avenue Musical Theatre, and the Overlake School. They have also served on the performance faculty at Virginia Tech, the Northwest School, and Dell’Arte International.
Jordan holds a BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre from Dell’Arte International. They are a member of Actors Equity Association (AEA) and the Pacific Northwest Theatrical Intimacy Professionals Collective (PNWTI), and an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers’ Society (SDC). www.jordanrosin.net / IG: @jrosinmoves
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Land Acknowledgement
Jordan acknowledges that they live and work primarily in the traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the Puyallup, Suquamish, Stillaguamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot Nations, and, in particular the Duwamish, the first people of Seattle. Jordan participates in Real Rent Duwamish (https://www.realrentduwamish.org/) and encourages other settlers to learn about the first peoples of the land you occupy at https://native-land.ca/, to pay honor taxes, and/or support rematriation / land back initiatives where you live.