Jo is a playwright and performer. She is the author of about 90 performed plays.

In 2018, she performed her THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JESUS QUEEN OF HEAVEN as the Christmas show at the Traverse. The show sold out and attracted 26,008 signatures to an online petition demanding it be banned.

She also performed EVE (which she co-wrote with Chris Goode) for the National Theatre of Scotland in Dundee, Nairn, and Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Her FIVE DAYS WHICH CHANGED EVERYTHING was broadcast on BBC Radio 4; her short film, THESE ARE MY HANDS, which she wrote and performs,  is being shown in cinemas throughout the world.

Her ANNA KARENINA was performed in Tokyo; and she was one of a cast of 12 women in Taishani’s DC:SEMIRAMIS, a performance art installation in the Tramway, Glasgow.

Her queer adaptation of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW opens in the Sherman, Cardiff, and tours to the Tron, Glasgow, in Feb/Mar 2019.

She is a proud father and grandmother and lives in Edinburgh.