Photo by Carlos DeLaRosa, Jr.
AWARDS & HONORS
COMPETITIONS, FELLOWSHIPS & LABS
Fellow - Creative Corridor 2022, Independent Film Trust (UK)/Roadmap Writers (US) Diversity Initiative supported by Sony Pictures Television
Fellow - BIPOC Writers Fellowship: Adapting Books to the Screen, 2021
Winner - The Script Lab Screenwriting Contest, 2019
Winner, Be the Change Award - Colorado International Activism Film Festival
Winner, Best TV Concept - Queen Palm International Film Festival, 2020
Winner, Grant Development Recipient - Stowe Story Labs, 2020
Top 1% - Historical TV Category - The Red List, 2022
Top 2% - Drama Feature Category - The Red List, 2022
Top 5% - The Writers Lab, NYC, 2022
Top 10% - The Academy Nicholl Fellowship for Screenwriters, 2020
Finalist - SAGindie Fellowship, 2019
Finalist - WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Fellowship, 2019
Finalist (Top 10) - Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition
Top 50 Short Screenplays - Cinequest Screenwriting Competition, 2017
Top 100 Screenplays - Launchpad Feature Competition
2nd Round - Sundance Episodic Lab, 2021
2nd Round - MACRO x The Black List Feature Screenwriter Incubator, 2021
2nd Round - ISA Fast Track Fellowship, 2022
2nd Rounder - Austin Film Festival, 2020
THEATRE
One of the "50 Playwrights to Watch" - The Dramatists Guild
Semifinalist - The Juilliard School, Lila Acheson American Playwriting Award
Winner - Emerging Playwright Award (NYC)
Winner, Best Original Play - Jewel Box Theatre
Finalist - Urban Stages (NYC), New Works for a New Season
Finalist - Ashland New Play Festival (Ashland, OR)
Official Selection - NAACP Theatre Festival
Official Selection - National Black Theatre Festival
Playwriting Residency - The Essential Theatre, D.C.
Playwriting Residency - Arkansas Repertory Theatre - Voices at the River II
BIO
LA’CHRIS ROBINSON JORDAN is a Los Angeles-based author, playwright, actor, and writer/director who creates gritty dramas and historicals about beautifully flawed women striving to make the world a better place. Prior to her TV, film and theatre career, La’Chris was a journalist who wrote feature articles about Emirati culture and the expat community for The Gulf News in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
La’Chris was recently selected for the 2022 Creative Corridor program, the U.K.'s Independent Film Trust (IFT) and U.S.-based Roadmap Writers co-production initiative supported by Sony Pictures Television for diverse writers to create, co-produce, network, develop and pitch commercial projects.
An alum of the 2021 BIPOC Writers Fellowship and the Stowe Story Labs, La’Chris is currently developing Harper Jameson’s novel I WASN’T REALLY NAKED (Level 4 Films), a spy thriller about singer/dancer Josephine Baker and her secret war against the Nazis. As a playwright, La’Chris was named one of the “50 Playwrights to Watch” by the Dramatists Guild and a semifinalist for the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard. Her work has been recognized by the Academy Nicholl Fellowships for Screenwriting, Sundance Episodic Lab, The Writers Lab NYC, and the Austin Film Festival.
La'Chris also wrote, directed and produced her debut short, JANUARY 14th, which was the recipient of 50+ awards and honors worldwide, including a nomination for Best Diaspora Short Film by the Africa Movie Academy Awards. The film was also the Official Selection of 75 film festivals including the Oscar-qualifying Pan African Film Festival.
LA'CHRIS JORDAN NAMED ONE OF THE '50 PLAYWRIGHTS TO WATCH'
BY THE DRAMATISTS GUILD OF AMERICA
FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS & OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
(Partial List)
Nominee, Best Diaspora Short Film - Africa Movie Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Writing - Queen Palm International Film Festival
Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film - Orlando Urban Film Festival
Winner, Award of Achievement - Accolade Global Film Competition
Winner, Special Jury Mention - Best Global Shorts
Winner, Best Short Feature - Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival
Winner, Best Social Justice Film - Hollywood South Urban Film Festival
Winner, Best U.S. Social Justice Short Film - Hollywood Women's Film Festival
Winner, Social Awareness Award - Vyre Film Festival
Winner, Best Social Short - New Age Cinemas & Scripts Festival
Winner, Best Director - Short Film - Voices Rising Film Festival
Winner, Best Woman Director - Hollywood Art & Movie Awards
Winner, Best Female Director - Vyre Film Festival
Winner, Best First Time Filmmaker - Montreal Independent Film Festival
Winner, Best Women-Produced Short Film - Urban Mediamakers Film Festival
Winner, Best Directorial Debut - Gold Star Movie Awards
Winner, Best Short Film- SoCal Film Awards
Winner, Best Short - Top Indie Film Awards
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Official Selection - Pan African Film Festival (Oscar-Qualifying)
Official Selection - Accra Indie Filmfest (Oscar-Qualifying)
Official Selection - San Francisco Black Film Festival
Official Selection - Micheaux Film Festival
Official Selection - Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival
Official Selection - Hollywood Women's Film Festival
Official Selection - Beverly Hills Film Festival
Official Selection - Hip Hop Film Festival
Official Selection - Roxbury International Film Festival
Official Selection - Raleigh Film & Art Festival
Official Selection - Social Justice Film Festival
Official Selection - Culture & Diversity Film Festival
Official Selection - Marina del Rey Film Festival
Official Selection - Twin Cities Black Film Festival
Official Selection - Black Film Festival of New Orleans
Official Selection - Loyola University Feminist Film Festival
Official Selection - Orlando Urban Film Festival
Official Selection - Austria International Film Festival
Official Selection - Paris In Love Film Festival
Official Selection - Oregon Short Film Festival
Official Selection - Seattle Black Film Festival
Official Selection - Indie Short Fest
Official Selection - Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival