Jo (formerly John) Clifford is the author of over 70 works in every dramatic medium. Her work has been translated into many languages and has been performed all over the world. Her plays include Everyone (Royal Lyceum Theatre), An Apple a Day (Oran Mor/Traverse Theatre), Losing Venice, Playing with Fire, Ines de Castro, Light in the Village (all for Traverse Theatre), Tchaikovsky and the Queen of Spades and Charles Dickens (both for Pitlochry Festival Theatre). Also for the stage, Jo has adapted Faust Parts 1 and 2 and Anna Karenina (both for the Royal Lyceum Theatre), Great Expectations (TAG), La Vie de Boheme and Wuthering Heights and has translated Schism in England, Life is a Dream, Celestina, The House of Bernarda Alba and Bintou.
For radio, Jo has written Spam Fritters, Writing home to Mother, Madeleine and Ain't it Great to be Bloomin' Well Dead and has adapted Baltasar and Blimunda.
Most recently Jo's play The Tree of Knowledge was produced at the Traverse Theatre and her short play, Sex, Chips and the Holy Ghost was produced at Oran Mor.
Jo lives in Edinburgh and is a former Professor of Theatre at Queen Margaret University. For further information on Jo and her work, visit www.teatrodomundo.com
