Jordan Trippeer is a produced writer whose eclectic mind, adventurous childhood and preference for The X-Files over Sesame Street as a kid set the course for her creative future.
Raised by a nomadic family that lived frugally to afford to travel, Jordan was fortunate enough to enjoy incredible adventures growing up. She’s luged into volcano calderas in New Zealand, pulled dinosaur vertebrae and gold nuggets from the earth of the American southwest, and cradled cobras in Morocco. Eventually, she fell in love with film, television, and literature and realized that she wanted to be a writer.
She’s developed a daring writing style that contrasts and complements her demure persona. While genre agnostic, her work shares the common thread of exploring human behavior, how we treat each other, and what makes us human. For her, writing is a radical act of compassion.
Her writing focuses on characters struggling through immense darkness searching for the light. The world is an unfair place where suffering is often meaningless – she likes to put characters through hell, then properly reward them for their struggle. She wants to make the audience care…and entertain the hell out of them along the way. Her work has been lauded for its “fascinating, flawed characters, immersive world building, and mischievous originality.”
Since arriving in Los Angeles, Jordan’s early successes have included two projects for Academy-Award-nominated actor and producer James Franco, The Labyrinth, an experimental anthology of strange fiction short films that premiered at ScreamFest, and Don Quixote, a lighthearted adventure starring Carmen Argenziano and Horatio Sanz, about Spain’s most enduring legendary figure, that premiered at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Both are now available on Amazon and/or Netflix depending on the year. Her short, Black Night, the story of super-powered teenagers escaping from government captivity, is also currently streaming on Amazon and thescene.com. Her narrative documentary Painting Anna, screened to rave reviews at the Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival and was released on Amazon.
To date, Jordan’s writing talents have been recognized by prominent competitions and writing programs. She has earned spots in PROJECT HER, the highly regarded female filmmaker incubator sponsored by Conde Nast and Indigenous Media where she was mentored by Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Gilmore Girls), as well as the DMG Entertainment Screenwriting Fellowship and the Industry Insider Fellowship with Ed Saxon. She has been a finalist for the Universal Screenwriters Program, with her action-adventure drama feature You Are My Home, and the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, with her magical realism feature Air, and her sci-fi script Providence made the Hit List.
She was named a Top 25 Screenwriter to Watch in 2021 by the International Screenwriters’ Association. Recently, her grounded sci-fi pilot Ascension, about a world where social scoring threatens to destroy humanity, was a finalist for the Screencraft TV Pilot Script Competition as well as an Austin Film Festival Second Rounder, and her dark thriller Hotel California was named a Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Award Finalist.
Her Bulgarian dramedy feature Scent of Linden is currently in post-production with Reflective Pictures.
She is also taking out a sci-fi immigrant LGBTQ+ family drama series that she helped co-create with award-winning director Naman Gupta based on his proof of concept short Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine starring Karan Soni (Deadpool, Miracle Workers), which has played at 60 film festivals, won 16 awards, and been nominated for over 40.
2022 was a busy year for Jordan. She was hired to co-write a high-budget swashbuckling adventure feature, called Descendant, currently out to producers, as well as a Lebanese indie feature about the plight of foreign mail-order maids for Stone Canyon Pictures and director Tarek Tohme, called Kumari.
In 2022, Naman Gupta brought her on to co-write an Indian folk horror feature called Svarak. And in early 2023, they completed the feature version of Coming Out.
Jordan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Richmond, as well as a Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Screen & Television from USC.
When not writing, she enjoys being a book goblin, rain connoisseur, khaki adventurer, and diehard theme park girl.
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