About

Hello. I’m a freelance theatre director based in Bristol with over 15 years experience working across UK theatres, festivals, and site-specific contexts, from studio to mid-scale, including; York Theatre Royal, Oldham Coliseum, Mercury Theatre Colchester, Pentabus, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Unity Theatre Liverpool, Zoo Venues Edinburgh, Strike a Light and Coventry City of Culture. I was Associate Director at Wiltshire Creative; Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury Arts Centre and Salisbury International Arts Festival (2016-2020) and Recipient of Regional Theatre Young Director’s Scheme (RTYDS) 18 Month Placement at Salisbury Playhouse (2015-16). Previously I was Co-Artistic Director of Tin Box Theatre (2011-16), a Theatre Maker on the Birmingham Rep’s Foundry Project (2013), part of New Diorama’s Emerging Theatre Companies Scheme, and part of the team managing PILOT Nights, Birmingham.

I have extensive experience collaborating with writers, companies and communities from early-stage concept to full production. While my main focus has been directing, I am now expanding my work as a freelance literary and production dramaturg and would love to support your next project.

Training: University of Birmingham (BA Hons Drama and Theatre Arts and MPhil B Directing and Dramaturgy)

Directing Credits Include: The Rainbow (Perth Theatre, British Council UK/Poland Season 2025), Glucks Flowers, Theatre West South West tour), Hungry Nation (Strike a Light, Coventry City of Culture), The Tailor of Gloucester, Relatively Speaking (Salisbury Playhouse), Imber: You Walk Through (Salisbury International Arts Festival), Handbagged (Salisbury Playhouse, York Theatre Royal, Oldham Coliseum), Silence (Mercury Theatre Colchester, Salisbury Playhouse and UK tour), A Wiltshire Tale (Salisbury Arts Centre and tour), Hansel (Salisbury Playhouse), Happiness Ltd (Bike Shed, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Salisbury Playhouse and tour), Betrayal (Salisbury Playhouse), This Land (Pentabus, Salisbury Playhouse and tour), Pint Dreams (Tin Box Theatre, Holding space commission and UK tour), Not Known at This Address (Tin Box Theatre, UK tour), Stop the Clocks (Tin Box Theatre, The Coffin Works)

As assistant director: The Magna Carta Plays; Bike; Fallen Angels (Salisbury Playhouse), Little Shop of Horrors (Salisbury Playhouse and Mercury Theatre Colchester), The Palace of Wasted Dreams (mac Birmingham). Jo was an Associate Director on we’re here because we’re here (National Theatre, Jeremy Deller, 14-18 Now) and conducted verbatim interviews for My Country (National Theatre).

I live with long-term chronic fatigue and have recently completed an Arts Council Funded DYCP to explore how to integrate my access needs into my creative process and embed access across my work as a whole, working sustainably alongside my caring responsibilities as a mother of two small children.