Jordan Jacobo

Jordan Jacobo is an American actor, screenwriter and film director who wrote the film Fletcher and Jenks (2016), wrote the series Jordan Loves (2017) and Sides (2021), and appeared in the films Expect a Miracle: Finding Light in the Darkness of a Pandemic (2020) and Long Live Xander the Great (2023).

Early life

Jacobo was raised in San Ysidro, San Diego, and resides in Imperial Beach, California. His father was part of the National Guard.

Career

In 2017, Jacobo created Jordan Loves on KPBS, a series that covers areas throughout San Diego such as the Coronado Bridge. He had previously made the web series Jordan Hates and wanted to create a show that expressed his cheerful side. In 2018, Jacobo adapted a story from postal carrier Ryan Bradford into a short film called 92115 produced by Mark Atkinson. By 2020, he was co-host of the podcast You're Gonna Die Alone and his play Transit Stop was selected for Old Globe Theatre's Powers New Voices Festival.

Jacobo co-wrote a series called Sides with Michael Lewis Foster in 2021, based on sitcoms from the 1980s and 1990s, that screened at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. In 2023, filmmaker Devin Scott directed the film Long Live Xander the Great, which was loosely based on Jacobo's childhood, and with Jacobo cast as the narrator. The film screened in 2024 at the GI Film Festival San Diego.

Jacobo screened a retrospective film at Digital Gym Cinema in 2024. In 2025, he wrote a screenplay called Quality Trauma Bonding for the 48 Hour Film Project. Jacobo expressed support for the SDC Film Initiative to help the film industry return to San Diego County.

Filmography

Year	Title	Actor	Writer	Director	Role	Notes
2016	Fletcher and Jenks	Yes	Yes	No	Detective
2017	Jordan Hates the Writing	Yes	Yes	No	Jordan	The Shining parody
Jordan Loves	Yes	Yes	Yes	Himself	Host, 7 episodes
2018	92115	No	Co-adapted	No	—N/a
To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This	Yes	No	No	Pizza Delivery Guy
2019	The Mayflower	Yes	No	No	Cesar
2020	Expect a Miracle: Finding Light in the Darkness of a Pandemic	Voice	No	No	—N/a
Panic at Parq	Yes	Lead	No	Jordan
Leave em' Laughing	Yes	No	No	Wake Up Man
2021	Shooters	Yes	—N/a	No	Jordan	7 episodes
Sides	Yes	Yes	No	Jordan	10 episodes
Soon Enough / Ya Pronto	No	Yes	Yes	—N/a
2022	Why the Nativity?	Yes	No	No	Adult Yoram
2023	Last Chance	Yes	No	No	Detective Diaz
The Buck Stop	Yes	Yes	Yes	—N/a	Produced by Shannon Taylor, screened at San Diego Latino Film Festival
Long Live Xander the Great	Yes	—N/a	No	Narrator	Voice, fictional work based on Jacobo

Accolades

Festival	Year	Title	Award	Result
48 Hour Film Project, San Diego	2016	Fletcher and Jenks	Best Writing	Nominated
Migrant Voices	2021	Soon Enough / Ya Pronto	Emerging Filmmaker	Finalist
Professional Filmmaker	Finalist

You're Gonna Die Alone podcast

From 2018 to 2020, Jacobo and Cristyn Chandler hosted a podcast called You're Gonna Die Alone that focused primarily on relationship disasters.

External links

atIMDb
at KPBS
at The San Diego Union-Tribune via Wayback Machine