About me

Jordan Noble’s plays include My Brother Death, Answering Machines, Jr, and Come High Water. His work has been developed or produced by Old Dominion University’s Playtime Theatre, Barter Theatre — the state theatre of Virginia, Over Our Head Players’ Snowdance Comedy Festival, Walking Shadow Reader’s Theatre, JaYo Theatre, East Riding Theatre (UK), and Zeider’s American Dream Theatre. Jordan is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild, and holds a degree in English from Old Dominion University and a certificate in Shakespearean and Contemporary Acting from the Guildhall School in London. Originally from southeastern Virginia, he now lives and writes in London, UK.

 

My Plays

Answering Machines


Synopsis:

Lauriston Moss is facing the end alone. He and his AI assistant take stock of what he will leave behind, and they discover a mysterious piece of property in his name. When he arrives, it turns out to house a machine that believes it’s his long deceased mother. On his last night, can he learn the lessons of generations, and leave a positive mark on the world?


Number of Characters: 4


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2


Length (in Pages): 45


Location: House, car, cafe table, garage


Key Words: AI, Cassette Futurism, Family, Legacy


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Better Tenants


Synopsis:

It’s 1986 and Gareth Miller is winning at life. He’s raking in beaucoup bucks from his record store assistant manager job, killing it selling magazines door-to-door, he has a great apartment, and somehow a beautiful genius girlfriend. He’s totally not a disgusting slob destroying his apartment building and contributing nothing. He’s exactly the person we’d want fending off an alien invasion of body-snatchers trying to save humanity from itself. PSYCH. Better Tenants is a satirical one act comedy about humanity's self-destructive tendencies and our effect on the environment.


Number of Characters: 6


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 5


Length (in Pages): 52


Location: Apartment, basement, street


Key Words: Climate change, Aliens, 1980s


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Better Tenants


Synopsis:

It’s 1986 and Gareth Miller is winning at life. He’s raking in beaucoup bucks from his record store assistant manager job, killing it selling magazines door-to-door, he has a great apartment, and somehow a beautiful genius girlfriend. He’s totally not a disgusting slob destroying his apartment building and contributing nothing. He’s exactly the person we’d want fending off an alien invasion of body-snatchers trying to save humanity from itself. PSYCH. Better Tenants is a satirical one act comedy about humanity's self-destructive tendencies and our effect on the environment.


Number of Characters: 6


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 5


Length (in Pages): 52


Location: Apartment, basement, street


Key Words: Climate change, Aliens, 1980s


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Human Sacrifice


Synopsis:

Once-celebrated former star of television and film turned acting guru, Holland Dean, breaks down barriers and personal walls so students can build honest characters on clear foundations. If they’re willing to make sacrifices, he can make their artistic dreams come true. Unless it’s all a lie. Someone here is definitely lying. Human Sacrifice is a drama exploring the contradictions in dramatic practice, cult tactics, and speaking out against abuse.


Number of Characters: 6


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 6


Length (in Pages): 84


Location: Acting studio


Key Words: Acting, Hollywood, cults, manipulation, "cancel culture", misogyny


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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My Brother Death


Synopsis:

Jeremy’s little brother Kevin is different. He never speaks, always wears that oversized black hoodie, and he has the miraculous ability to free people suffering in pain from their earthly bonds. Their parents are so proud of Kevin. The world celebrates him. Jeremy pretends not to know him. Through school, careers, marriage, life, Jeremy runs from his brother’s reputation, but will he find too late that he’s run from much more? My Brother Death is a darkly comic memoir about family, remembrance, and celebrating life.


Number of Characters: 25


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 9


Length (in Pages): 86


Location: Apartment, office, college, field, club, art gallery, airplane,


Key Words: Death, Family, Remembrance


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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