Jo Clifford – a brief introduction
Jo Clifford is a Scottish playwright, performer and teacher.
He has written about a hundred plays, which have been translated and performed around the world.
In the 1980s, he helped to bring the Scottish Traverse Theatre to world fame through several internationally acclaimed premieres.
Clifford’s work has often focused on defining and studying the status of women. She has been particularly interested in big stories in which a woman gets to look at the world as a central character.
Clifford calls himself a proud father and at the same time a grandmother who took twenty years to find her own voice as a playwright. He says he spent another twenty years searching for his identity as a performer.
Clifford was the first openly transgender woman whose stage adaptation was performed in London’s West End.
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