Emma Jordan was born in west Belfast where she attended St Louise's Comprehensive College.
It was here that she started to study drama and got involved with the Marillac Theatre Company, based in the college.
These included Death and the Maiden, Endgame, American Buffalo, Shopping and F**king, A Place with the Pigs, and Oleanna.
She has collaborated with the Bosnian theatre director Haris Pašovič in the production of The Conquest of Happiness for Derry~Londonderry UK City of Culture 2013.
This production went on to tour to Belfast, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, and Mostar in co-production with Pašovič’s East West Theatre Company.