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Jordan Ealey

Jordan Ealey is a playwright, dramaturg, and scholar based in the DC-area.

Jordan Ealey is a playwright, dramaturg, and scholar, hailing from Atlanta, Georgia and currently based in the DC-area. Currently, Jordan is a doctoral student in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park where she researches black theatre and performance, black feminist theories and praxis, musical theatre, black girlhood studies, practice-as-research, and popular entertainment. Her work has been published in Theatre Journal. As a playwright, Jordan's works have been workshopped and/or developed with The Keegan Theatre, University of Maryland, and Rorschach Theatre. As a dramaturg, she has worked with Hush Harbor Lab, Dance Place, and Synchronicity Theatre. Jordan is the co-host and co-producer of Daughters of Lorraine, a black theatre podcast.

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The Ritual of What to Send Up When it Goes Down
Podcast

The Ritual of What to Send Up When it Goes Down

Daughters of Lorraine Podcast #5

8 January 2020

Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley discuss the transformative power of Aleshea Harris' What to Send Up When it Goes Down by centering Black rage, ritual, and healing on this episode of the Daughters of Lorraine podcast.

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Staging Slavery by Black Playwrights
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Staging Slavery by Black Playwrights

Daughters of Lorraine Podcast #4

9 December 2019

In this episode of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley focus on representations of slavery on stage by Black playwrights beginning from the early 19th century to the 1960s.

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Riding Along with Jitney
Podcast

Riding Along with Jitney

Daughters of Lorraine Podcast Episode #3

25 November 2019

On this episode of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley review Arena Stage's production of August Wilson’s Jitney, directed by Black theatre legend, Ruben Santiago-Hudson.

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Early Black Feminist Theatre and Lynching Dramas Revisited
Podcast

Early Black Feminist Theatre and Lynching Dramas Revisited

Daughters of Lorraine Podcast Episode #2

12 November 2019

For this episode of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley focus on the histories and enduring legacies of lynching dramas, covering early twentieth century history of Black women playwrights using theatre for protest ends, and situating them in Black feminism and Black radical tradition.

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A Conversation on Fairview
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A Conversation on Fairview

Daughters of Lorraine Podcast Episode #1

28 October 2019

On this first episode of Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, Leticia Ridley and Jordan Ealey discuss Woolly Mammoth's production of Fairview by Jackie Sibbilies Drury, its theoretical and theatrical interventions, as well as situate it in the historical and cultural contexts of Black theatre.

Daughters of Lorraine Podcast
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Daughters of Lorraine Podcast

The Daughters of Lorraine Podcast was created in 2019 by Dr. Jordan Ealey and Dr. Leticia Ridley while they were graduate students at the University of Maryland, College Park.