We are based in Scotland and lead by performer Melanie Jordan and director Caitlin Skinner. We make joyful performance about the stuff that makes us angry.  Our style is a mix of physical theatre, clown, dance, politics and visual metaphor with an unapologetically militant intersectional feminist agenda.

In 2018 we were awarded a fellowship with the Barbican and ArtWorks Alliance to develop our participatory practice in partnership with Platform where we were Associate Artists 2018 – 2019.

Our first production Sanitise won a Scotsman Fringe First in 2014 and was an Arches Brick Award nominee. Our second show At A Stretch for young audiences won a Three Weeks Editors’ Award 2017.

“Sharp, witty and vivid” The Scotsman

THE TEAM

Melanie Jordan- Performer

Melanie is a Gaulier trained performer, director and theatre maker based in Glasgow. Recent performing credits include Valentina’s Galaxy by Frozen Charlotte, At A Stretch by Jordan & Skinner (Three Weeks Editors’ Award winner), Flutter by Tortoise in a Nutshell, Sanitise by Jordan & Skinner (Fringe First Award winner), Selkie by Kay Singh (David MacLennan Award winner). Melanie also writes and performs in various clown and cabaret acts and is co-founder of Scotland’s Clown Cabaret.
Melanie is Physical Theatre Practitioner with Surge where she has directed, choreographed and performed in a number of their productions including Beautiful Bones, Galoshans Play and Them Peasants as well as running Scotland’s largest street theatre festival, Surge Festival. Melanie is currently directing Slug! by Visible Fictions and is co-creating and performing in Nino by Tidy Carnage.

Caitlin Skinner- Director

Caitlin Skinner alongside her work with Jordan & Skinner, Caitlin is Artistic Director and CEO of Stellar Quines Theatre Company and director with new writing touring company Pearlfisher.  Caitlin is former Associate Director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Artistic Director of acclaimed new writing pub theatre company Village Pub Theatre.

CONTACT US

To talk to us about touring or for general information please contact us at

hello@jordanandskinner.com