Actor, writer, producer, showrunner — Fort Worth native Jordan Cooper can do it all, and he’s got the awards to show for it, not to mention a role in the new Disney film Freakier Friday. But at heart, Cooper says, he’s just a storyteller.

RICH LOPEZ | Staff writer Rich@DallasVoice.com

Jordan E. Cooper may have been based in New York since he was a teenager, but North Texas cannot sleep on one of its own. All before the age of 30, Cooper opened his first off-Broadway play, Ain’t No Mo’, that made him the youngest Black American playwright in Broadway history and earned him an Obie Award. He then earned Tony nominations for the show.

He was also the co-creator and executive producing show-runner of The Ms. Pat Show at 24 years old. In 2024, he was named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list along

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