Photo credit: Carlos DeLaRosa, Jr.
AWARDS & HONORS
(Partial List)
CONTESTS, FELLOWSHIPS & LABS
Fellow - BIPOC Writers Fellowship: Adapting Books to the Screen
Winner - The Script Lab Screenwriting Contest
Winner, Be the Change Award - Colorado International Activism Film Festival
Winner, Best TV Concept - Queen Palm International Film Festival
Winner, Grant Development Recipient - Stowe Story Labs
Top 1% in the Historical TV Category - The Red List
Top 1% in the Drama Feature Category - The Red List
Top 10% - The Academy Nicholl Fellowship
Finalist - SAGindie Fellowship
Finalist - WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Fellowship
Finalist (Top 10) - Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition
Top 50 Short Screenplays - Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
Top 100 Screenplays - Launchpad Feature Competition
2nd Round - Sundance Episodic Lab
2nd Round - MACRO x The Black List Feature Screenwriter Incubator
2nd Rounder - Austin Film Festival
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 JORDAN is a Los Angeles-based playwright and writer/director with indigenous roots in North Carolina and Louisiana. An alum of the 2021 BIPOC Writers Fellowship: Adapting Books to Screen and the Stowe Story Labs, La’Chris is known for writing female-led historicals, gritty dramas and gun-sling westerns such as PINEY RIDGE, ROSES IN THE WATER, THE SOFTWALKERS and POE’S DISCIPLE. After graduating from the University of Washington, La’Chris began her career in journalism and public relations, working for advertising powerhourse F97 McCann Worldgroup and The Gulf News in Dubai, UAE. Upon her return to the U.S., La’Chris began working in theatre, TV and film which led to her being named ‘One of the 50 Playwrights to Watch’ by the Dramatists Guild as well as a Top 20 Semifinalist for the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard. She has also been recognized by the Sundance Episodic Lab, MACRO Episodic Lab, Launchpad and the Austin Film Festival, among others.
In 2019, La’Chris wrote, directed and produced her debut short, JANUARY 14TH, which had its World Premiere at the Pan African Film Festival and was the Official Selection of 75+ film festivals and 50+ award wins and nominations.
La’Chris is currently adapting her semi-autobiographical play HARAM/FORBIDDEN, a story about an American journalist living in Dubai who gets caught up in a web of intrigue and mystery when a colleague disappears following the murders of several foreign prostitutes.
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