Jordan Rosin (they/them+) [Co-Founder, Co-Artistic Director] 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 Ume Group and frequent collaborator with the butoh/physical theatre company Ren Gyo Soh. For The Ume Group directing / choreography credits include BUTOH ELECTRA (2011 workshop), ISIS VARIATIONS, LYSISTRATA PROJECT, and VOICES IN THE STONE. Performing credits include FACET, ISIS VARIATIONS, and JORDAN & THE HUMAN.
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