Background
Jordan was born in Palo Alto, California and graduated from New York University.
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Jordan Allen-Dutton
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New York University; Tisch School of the Arts.
Career
In 1999, he co-created and starred in The Bomb-itty of Errors, a so-called "Add-Rap-Tation" of Shakespeare"s Comedy of Errors, that mixed hip-hop and Shakespeare. The show debuted in New York (Office-Broadway) at 45 Bleecker Saint and went on to run in London (West End), Chicago, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Dublin, Florida, Philadelphia, Saint Louis, and continues to play around the world. The Bomb-itty is published by Samuel French.
Jordan co-wrote many songs with Erik Weiner including, "I"m So Straight", One Lincolnshire on the Sopranos and I Google Myself produced by Yung Mars.
Jordan has also written for and produced television shows such as America"s Best Dance Crew, Snoop Dogg"s Fatherhood, National Broadcasting Company"s The Sing-Office, the Music Television Movie Awards, and the Home Box Office poetry show Brave New Voices. In addition to writing and producing Jordan founded a software company in 2004 called Talking Panda, that creates applications for mobile devices.
Talking Panda"s software iLingo a talking phrasebook was among the first products in the apple store and was featured in Time Magazine in the November 03, 2008 issue. Talking Panda iLingo was also included in the iPhone App store on the day it launched.
Achievements
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In 2004, Jordan formed Famous Last Nerds with collaborator Erik Weiner their musical comedy Nerds, about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs" rise from garage inventors to titans of the digital age premiered at New York Stage and Film in 2005 and won Barrymore Awards for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Original Music in 2007. Their video Shawshank In A Minute was directed by John Landis and won Jib-Jab"s Great Sketch Experiment in 2006.
