Jordan Paul Clarke

Jordan Paul Clarke is an award-winning writer, composer, musical director and improviser, and a graduate of The Royal Academy of Music.

He's a musical director of Olivier Award winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, and has toured with multi-award winning Mischief Theatre (Olivier-Nominated Mischief Movie Night), Murder She Didn't Write, Paul Merton and Suki Webster's Improv Show, and Austentatious. Other musical direction credits include Broken Wings (Dubai Opera House), AIDS Baby (Barbican), Animal Farm (National Youth Theatre), Ride (Garrick Theatre), Going Out Out (Home, Manchester), Elmer The Patchwork Elephant (Tall Stories, Soho Theatre), Mother Trucker (Mercury Colchester), rehearsal pianist for Operation Mincemeat and a UK Tour of Choose Your Own Cabaret with Drag Race superstar Kate Butch.

Jordan was the Cameron Macintosh Resident Composer in 2023, and his original musicals include: Happy (Waterloo Vaults, The Kings Head); Friday Night Sinner at Soho Theatre, Angry Salmon at Theatre Royal Plymouth; Public Domain (Vaudeville Theatre, for which he was nominated for The Stage Debut Awards 2022 for best composer, lyricist and book writer, and also received a Merit Award from the LA New Voices Project 2021, supported by Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment; The Bob Ross Effect (Edinburgh Fringe); Raising Gays (Garrick Theatre, July 2026, finalist of the Stiles and Drewe Mentorship Award); and P.S. I’m a Terrible Person (shortlisted for the Charlie Hartill Award, Pleasance Theatre). He has also developed a project for Disney+, and composed the music for documentary The Most Beautiful Noise, directed by Emmy award winning Joe Pavlo.