Jo's unnecessarily eventful life includes quitting lawyering the day after she called to the bar, training at a clown school (The Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris under a National Arts Council Residency), and then acting in productions that have been seen in cities from New York to Busan, most notably as the main lead in internationally feted movie, Tiong Bahru Social Club. As a playwright, she has had several works staged including Forked, Happy Place, and King (the last of which scored her the Best Original Script and Best Actress titles in Singapore’s Life! Theatre Awards in 2022). She loves tabletop gaming and wrote the play Session Zero about Dungeons and Dragons, which received two sold-out stagings; and created Dungeons and Distractions, a live combat Dungeons and Dragons performance which has received its third commission in less than a year. Other eclectic entries on her CV include being an ex-DJ with perhaps the shortest stint on radio, being an occasional TV presenter on Channel NewsAsia, and the newest member of the Dim Sum Dollies (the tall one).
Photography by Crispian Chan
Last Updated: May 2024