Jo trained at both Bristol University and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York.
Current Work includes:
Kiss Me Kate
Opera North / London Coliseum
Oklahoma
Grange Park Opera
Opera and Theatre includes
The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich
Royal Shakespeare Company
Twelfth Night
Royal Exchange
Don Giovanni
Nationale Reisopera, Netherlands
Don Carlo
Grange Park Opera
Kiss Me Kate
Opera North / Tour
Winner 'Best Musical', CityLife Awards 2015
Carousel - Revival
Opera North / Tour
The Marriage of Figaro
Opera North / Tour
Nominated Best Opera, Manchester Theatre Awards 2016
The Roaring Girl
Royal Shakespeare Company
Silly Kings
National Theatre Wales
Winner Theatre Critics of Wales Award for Best Production for Children & Young People
La Vie Parisienne
Royal College of Music
Carousel
Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
The Two Widows
Angers Nantes Opera
Carousel
Opera North / Barbican
The Country
Salisbury Playhouse
Ruddigore
Opera North / Barbican
Aida
ENO / Houston Opera / San Francisco Opera
The Rape of Lucretia
Royal College of Music
Le Nozze Di Figaro
Classical Opera Company
A Night At The Chinese Opera
Royal Academy of Music
Cunning Little Vixen
Royal College of Music
La Fanciulla Del West
Opera Holland Park
The Palace In The Sky
ENO for Hackney Community Opera
Charlie Lavender
Southwark Playhouse
Secondhand Dreams
Scarborough
Le Toreador
Battignano Opera Festival
About Face
Linbury Studio at ROH
Elements / Head II Head / Midnight's Children
ENO – Contemporary Opera Studio
Henry IV Part 3
Birmingham Rep
Control Freaks
Battersea Arts Centre
The Baker's Wife (Musical)
Royal Academy of Music
Bugsy Malone (Musical)
West End
The Wizard of Oz (Musical)
Theatre Royal Bath
As Associate Director
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
West End / Broadway
Adrian Noble
Medea
West End / Broadway
Deborah Warner
House and Garden
National Theatre
Alan Ayckbourn
The Winter's Tale
National Theatre
Nicholas Hytner
Oklahoma
National Theatre
Trevor Nunn
Film
Gloriana
As associate director
Phyllida Lloyd
Other
Jack and Jill
ENO, Contemporary Opera Studio and Tete-a-Tete
Librettist for Short Opera
