Jo graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School with a diploma in technical production in 1996 and has been working in theatre for over 30 years. She freelanced for many years in Wellington as a lighting designer / operator and stage manager as well as working overseas in London and Edinburgh and in film. She was an on-set production assistant for King Kong.
Jo is the Head Stage Manager at The Court Theatre and has been involved in over 50 Court Productions going back to 1996 including Cabaret, Othello, Art, The Seagull, Amadeus, Pacific Post, The Motor Camp, End of the Rainbow, Blood Brothers, One Man, Two Guvnors, Niu Sila, The Ladykillers, Waiora, Steel Magnolias, Venus in Fur, Easy Money, Stephen King's Misery, Elling, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Fresh Off the Boat, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ladies Night, Frankenstein, The Girl on the Train, Flagons and Foxtrots, Sense and Sensibility, and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express.
Jo graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Arts in 1994.
Court Shows
- 2024 - A Doll’s House - Lighting Designer & Stage Manager
- 2024 - She Kills Monsters - Operator
- 2024 - Fun Home - Rehearsal Stage Manager
- 2024 - Mr and Mrs Macbeth of Heathcote Valley Road - Stage Manager
- 2024 - Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express - Stage Manager
- 2023 - The Haka Party Incident - Stage Manager
- 2023 - Dance Nation - Stage Manager
- 2023 - The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race - Stage Manager
- 2023 - Appropriate - Stage Manager
- 2023 - Sense and Sensibility - Stage Manager
- 2022 - Flagons and Foxtrots - Stage Manager
- 2022 - The Girl On The Train - Stage Manager
- 2021 - Little Shop of Horrors - Assistant Stage Manager
- 2021 - Frankenstein - Stage Manager
- 2021 - Ladies Night - Stage Manager
- 2020 - A Streetcar Named Desire - Stage Manager
- 2019 - A Christmas Carol - Stage Manager/Operator
- 2019 - Fresh Off the Boat - Stage Manager
- 2019 - The Arsonists - Stage Manager/Operator
- 2019 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Stage Manager
- 2019 - Time Machine - Stage Manager
- 2019 - Elling - Stage Manager
- 2018 - A Christmas Carol - Stage Manager
- 2018 - Astroman - Stage Manager
- 2018 - Stephen King's Misery - Stage Manager
- 2018 - Ideation - Stage Manager
- 2018 - Roger Hall's Easy Money - Stage Manager
- 2017 - Venus in Fur - Stage Manager
- 2017 - Steel Magnolias - Stage Manager
- 2017 - Uncle Vanya - Stage Manager
- 2017 - Ropable - Stage Manager
- 2016 - Waiora: Te ū kai pō – The Homeland - Stage Manager
- 2016 - Matariki: Little Eyes in the Sky - Stage Manager
- 2016 - Matthew, Mark, Luke and Joanne - Stage Manager
- 2016 - Winston's Birthday - Stage Manager
- 2016 - Puss in Boots - Stage Manager
- 2016 - The Events - Stage Manager
- 2015 - Exit The King - Stage Manager
- 2015 - The Ladykillers - Stage Manager
- 2015 - Niu Sila - Stage Manager
- 2015 - Constellations - Stage Manager
- 2015 - Shepherd - Stage Manager
- 2014 - One Man, Two Guvnors - Stage Manager
- 2014 - You Can Always Hand Them Back - Stage Manager
- 2014 - Blood Brothers - Stage Manager
- 2014 - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Stage Manager
- 2014 - End of the Rainbow - Stage Manager
- 2013 - Postal - Stage Manager
- 2013 - The Great Art War - Stage Manager
- 2013 - Amadeus - Stage Manager
- 2012 - Rapunzel - Stage Manager
- 2012 - The Motor Camp - Stage Manager
- 2012 - Pacific Post - Stage Manager
- 2012 - Groundswell - Stage Manager/Operator
- 2010 - The Seagull - Stage Manager
- 2010 - A Paintbox of Clowns - Stage Manager