About Diana Elizabeth Jordan
Diana Elizabeth Jordan is an award-winning actress, filmmaker, acting coach, and disability inclusion advocate whose career is reshaping representation in Hollywood. A proud Black disabled woman with cerebral palsy, she was the first actor with a visible disability to earn an MFA in Acting from California State University, Long Beach. Diana has appeared in more than 60 film, television, and theater productions, including HBO MAX’S The PITT, Sony Studio’s animated film GOAT, and CBS’s S.W.A.T. She is also a solo artist with several one-woman shows to her credit, a member of two improvisation ensembles, a TEDX speaker (Sonoma County 2023), an acting coach, experiential learning designer, and expressive arts workshop facilitator.
In addition to her acting career, Diana is a director and producer. As a solopreneur, she is the founder of The Rainbow Butterfly Café, a content creation and cultural-change consulting company that offers DEIB and cultural wellness workshops, as well as accessibility consulting services. She launched (in 2015) Dreaming Big On A Swing Entertainment, a production company amplifying marginalized voices through film and live productions. She serves on The National and Local Performers With Disability Committees for SAG/AFTRA, The Hollywood Fringe Access Committee and is the Disabled Advocate for Women of Color Unite. Diana has also been featured in Forbes, The Bold Beauty Project, the Disability Visibility Project. and was named one of the disabled actors to watch by IMDB in 2025.
Diana is a sought-after speaker and performer who delivers powerful performance keynotes, solo shows, and experiential expressive arts-based workshops. Whether sharing her lived experiences, performing a solo show, or facilitating a workshop, Diana impacts audiences with her heart, grit, humor, and unapologetic truth.
Speaking Topics
- Through Our Lens: Disability, Representation and Storytelling: Diana speaks on the power of art and storytelling to change and empower the disability narrative.
- Daring to Dream Your Possible Dream: A motivational talk on creating a path to set goals and envision your possible dreams.
- Navigating Blackholes While Traveling Through Outer Space: Finding Light Through Life’s Challenges: Diana speaks on challenging adversity, the power of resiliency & gratitude with her signature style of humor, vulnerability, and grace.
- Solo Performances: Complete narrative solo shows that serve as a powerful alternative to a traditional keynote, using storytelling, performance, and multimedia to edutain and impact audiences.
- Happily Ever After (One Woman’s Journey To Find A True Love): Diana shares her journey to find a true love until the day she realized her true love was closer to her than she ever imagined.
- Crossing at the Intersections (Journeys of Faith, Resistance, Resilience & Love): A look into Diana’s intersectional diversity as a disabled African American Woman through poetry and monologues.
- Climbing The Crystal Staircase: Celebrating the power of resiliency through poetry and monologues.
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