Jordan E. Cooper

Jordan E. Cooper is an Award-winning playwright, producer, director, performer, and the youngest Black American playwright in the history of Broadway, as well as the youngest Black showrunner in television history.

His Obie Award-winning play, AIN’T NO MO’ received six TONY Award nominations including “Best New Play” and “Best Featured Actor in a Play” for Jordan’s role as the hilarious and bossy flight attendant “Peaches.” Directed by Stevie Walker-Webb and produced by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lee Daniels, press called AIN’T NO MO’ “fearlessly provocative,” “jubilantly disruptive,” and the “Best New Play on Broadway This Year,” citing Jordan as “Broadway’s Groundbreaking New Voice.” 

Jordan co-created, executive produces and directs the Emmy-nominated The Ms. Pat Show, which is hailed by critics as “one of the most radical sitcoms of the modern era.” Jordan was also featured on the final season of FX’s groundbreaking series Pose as “MC Tyrone” and has his own production company, Cookout Entertainment.

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