Vernon Jordan, III

Vernon Jordan, III is a Philly-born and raised writer, filmmaker, and poet. As an Afrofuturist, he reflects and expands upon African American memories, dreams, hauntings, queer kinship, and intimate fluidity; his priority is the merging of the visual and the musical: a Visual Lyricist. Vernon is currently the Assistant Director of programs at cinéSPEAK, a Philadelphia-based cinema and film publication. Vernon has been a teaching artist for many years, and currently teaches in-person at a Germantown homeschool and virtually through a PBS affiliated Media Lab program. Vernon has read for Sesame Street writers room and works independently as a professional script reader, and has had his own scripts place high at Sundance Episodic Lab, as well as Screencraft Screenplay competitions. Vernon's a signed model with WeSpeak Models, and his various writing can be found online at HuffPost, Racebaitr, Black Youth Project, Shade Literary Arts, and more. In 2019 Vernon co-wrote and directed a short film called DEEP CUTS (in post); his latest short film, ONE MAGENTA AFTERNOON, is beginning its film festival tour, and Vernon is currently developing the film into a feature film script, called Lavender Boy.