He currently plays Winslow "Winn" Schott, Junior. (the son of District of Columbia Comics villain character Toyman) on the Columbia Broadcasting System District of Columbia Comics based superhero drama series Supergirl. Jordan was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Jordan is Jewish on his mother"s side (her parents" families were Jewish immigrants from Russia, Latvia, and Lithuania).
He was a "straight A student", and graduated from Mary Carroll High School, where he was an active member of the choir. Later, he graduated from Ithaca College, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre.
He has performed on Broadway and in television and film, as well as in other theatrical productions. He is best known for the roles of Jack Kelly in the 2012 musical Newsies and Clyde Barrow in the 2011 musical Bonnie & Clyde. Jordan sang as a teenager, also beginning to act in high school.
In 2008, he starred as Alex in The Little Dog Laughed at Hartford Theatreworks, for which he received a Connecticut Critics Circle nomination.
Later the same year, he played Tom Sawyer in Big River at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. He appeared in the Broadway cast of Rock of Ages in 2009.
He also made a 2008 television appearance, guest starring on National Broadcasting Company"s Law & Order: SVU in the episode "Streetwise". Jordan starred as an alternate for the leading role of Tony in the 2009 Broadway revival of West Side Story.
He also starred as Clyde Barrow in the 2010 pre-Broadway Sarasota, Florida tryout of the new musical, Bonnie & Clyde by Frank Wildhorn and Don Black.
He debuted the role of Clyde when the show opened on Broadway on December 1, 2011. The show closed on December 30, 2011 after 36 performances. Jordan played Jack in the stage version of Newsies at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey in September and October 2011.
He starred in the Warner Brothers film Joyful Noise, opposite Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, and Dolly Parton.
The film opened on January 13, 2012. Jordan reprised the lead role as Jack Kelly in Disney"s Newsies on Broadway, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and book by Harvey Fierstein.
Newsies opened at the Nederlander Theatre on March 29, 2012. lieutenant was announced in June 2012 that Jordan would be joining the cast of National Broadcasting Company"s Smash for season two playing Jimmy.
He initially filmed episodes for Smash while simultaneously performing in Newsies until it was announced in August 2012 that his final performance in the musical would be September 4.
He appeared in the Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis staged concert A Bed and A Chair for Encores! at New York City Center from November 13 through 17, 2013, along with, among others, Norm Lewis and Bernadette Peters. In December 2013, Jordan appeared in Hit List, a concert presentation of the fictional musical created for the second season of Smash. He has performed at 54 Below in New York City many times as both a soloist and with his Smash costars.
Jordan played Jamie Wellerstein in The Last 5 Years, a film adaptation of the musical of the same name.
The film was shot over three weeks in June 2013, and was released on Valentine"s Day of 2015. In 2015, Jordan was cast as Winslow "Winn" Schott Junior. on the Columbia Broadcasting System series Supergirl.
The premiere was watched by 12.96 million viewers and subsequently received a full season order on November 30, 2015. Jordan has since received praise for his performance on the show.
