Pat Jordan
Pat is a professional actor, playwright and director whose passion for history has led her to bring the stories of Famous American Women to appreciative audiences throughout the country. Pat’s characters are thoroughly researched and include 18th, 19th, and 20th Century women such as Clara Barton, Louisa May Alcott, Amelia Earhart, and suffragist leader Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters, among others.
Her work for American Historical Theatre includes appearances as a Public Scholar for the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, and performances at venues such as the National Archives in Washington DC, Truman Library, Smithsonian Institution, and the White House Visitors’ Center, along with libraries, schools and local organizations.
In historical films Pat can be seen as Revolutionary War-era Philadelphian Sarah Gibbons in Eyewitness to History. In addition, she wrote and directed a documentary, If Walls Could Talk: the Story of Laurel Hill Mansion, which was aired at the Philadelphia International Film Festival and on Comcast.
When asked what her favorite hobbies might be, she says, “Taking my little dog for a walk, and reading Historical Non-Fiction, of course!”
Characters portrayed by Pat Jordan:
Amelia Earhart, Mary Todd Lincoln, Martha Washington, Louisa May Alcott, Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, Carrie Chapman Catt