Jonathan Jordan
Playwright, Screenwriter and Content Creator
McKinney, Texas
November 2014
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About Jonathan
Jonathan has been writing for pretty much as long as he can remember. In 2002, he won the TETA PlayFest award for his one act play "The Day Milly Died" and then won again the following year for his play, "What Happened to the Lightning?" He went on to earn a degree in English Literature from the University of North Texas and spent eight years as a social worker while continuing to write as a hobby. In 2018, he won Stage 32's Feature Screenwriting competition with his sports drama "Golden Girl," and was hired by Anova Pictures later that year to pen a biopic about an Olympic diver. His work has been read by studios like Netflix, Disney, Sony, Topic Studios and JuVee Productions, among others, and he is currently managed by Settebello Entertainment. He currently lives in North Texas with his family, where he runs a growing writing business and can be heard on the movie-centered podcast "Magical Movie Marathon."
Unique traits: While I consider myself genre agnostic, I have an affinity for sports dramas and fantasy.
Loglines
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In/Fidelity Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy After a schoolteacher's wife leaves him for their marriage counselor, he begins an unlikely friendship with the counselor's wife. As their relationship develops, so do a series of unexpected consequences.
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Tiger Lily Budget: $30M+ | Fantasy After a failed attempt to avenge her mother's death, Tiger Lily must fight for her place as the tribe's future chief against her older cousin. But when a mysterious thief shows up during the ensuing quest, she will have to choose between her desire to be chief and the wellbeing of Neverland itself.
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A Mistletoe Wish Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy During a trip home for the holidays, an ambitious young woman inadvertently invites mischief upon herself after spurning a man under some magical mistletoe. With the help of a witty holiday spirit and an old crush, she has until midnight to set things right.
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Declan Budget: $5M - $10M | Sports ⋄ Biography Based on the inspirational true story of Declan Farmer, born without legs below the knees, who discovers the sport of sled hockey. At age 14, he becomes the youngest person ever invited to join the US national team, overcoming adversity and personal tragedy on the way to leading Team USA to back-to-back gold medal victories at the 2014 and 2018 Paralympic Games.
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Arrows Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy After an amateur archer accidentally injures the god Cupid, she has to help him complete a quest to bring two people together. Unfortunately for her, one of those two people is her crush.
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Pangeo Budget: $10M - $30M | Sci-fi ⋄ Adventure Six years after a cataclysmic event causes the world's continents to combine into a single land mass, a father and his daughter set out to find her geologist mother who disappeared just before everything changed.
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NOD Budget: $30M+ | Fantasy ⋄ Family When the fantastical dream-making factory NOD is attacked by a dream-eating monster, an unlikely trio of sprites must unite to track down the reclusive Dream Master who may be the only hope to save NOD.
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Paradise Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy A teenage girl lies about attempting suicide in order to join a local counseling group made up of an eclectic group of survivors.
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Rowing Dove Comedy After losing their lead actress, an eccentric local theatre group and their curmudgeonly director blackmail a young pickpocket into filling the role.
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Golden Girl Drama ⋄ Sports A collegiate track coach faces a professional and personal crisis when her former Olympic teammate admits to doping. Her life is further complicated when she discovers a troubled girl with uncanny natural talent.
Credits
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Prosper Springs (
2011 )
Theater by California Institute of the Arts Creative Team -
What Happened to the Lightning? (
2003 )
Theater Writer/Actor -
The Day Milly Died (
2002 )
Theater Writer
Awards
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Stage 32 Feature Screenwriting Contest, Grand Prize, for "Golden Girl"
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AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship Top 10%, for "Golden Girl"
(2016) -
TETA PlayFest, for "What Happened To The Lightning?"
(2003) -
TETA PlayFest, for "The Day Milly Died"
(2002)
Education
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University of North Texas
(2003-2007)
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