His stage play Play Federico For Me tells the fictional story of Catalan actress Margarita Xirgu, who relies on the ghost of Federico García Lorca during her exile after the Spanish Civil War to help her in her political-artistic battle with Eva Perón over the first performance of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba.
His 2007 radio play, The Sixth Column Has Better Legs, portrays the experiences of four chorus girls in Madrid during the city's siege.
Boardman-Jacobs' Passion for the Impossible tells the story of Violette Leduc and Jean Genet in wartime Paris, while Red Hot and Blue depicts singer Libby Holman's reflection on her life, including a murder trial, an affair with Montgomery Clift, and early Civil Rights campaigning during World War II, on the night before her suicide.
In 2003, Boardman-Jacobs taught at the Lemonia Disabled Writers' Residential Course, a project organized by Graeae Theatre Company, Writernet, and Tŷ Newydd.
[3] His 2004 play, Embracing Barbarians, based on the political and sexual fantasies of dying Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, featured a deaf performer in the role of a hearing character in an effort to make the piece accessible to both deaf and hearing performers and audiences.