Her dissertation was titled, "Ines de Castro in Theatre and Film: A Feminist Exhumation of the Dead Queen.
[5] In 1986, Jordão co-founded the feminist theatre group Company of Sirens with Lina Chartrand, Catherine Glen, Lib Spry, Shawna Dempsey, and Cynthia Grant.
[6] As part of Company of Sirens, Jordão co-created the group's most popular play, The Working People's Picture Show.
[9] Mary The Slasher, a play Jordão co-wrote with Rebecca Burton, premiered at the second Hysteria Festival, co-presented by Nightwood Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times.
[10] At Nightwood Theatre's 22nd Groundswell Festival in August 2005, Jordão's play about a woman who had been a communist leader in the Spanish civil war, Las Pasionarias, premiered.