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Jo Clifford (born 1951) is a British writer, performer, poet and teacher based in Edinburgh. In 2017, she was inducted into the Saltire Society's community of Outstanding women of Scotland, and was given the Olwen Wymark award by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain in 2021. Clifford studied at the University of St Andrews.
Jo Clifford. Jo Clifford was born in North Staffordshire in 1951 where she was raised as a boy. This entailed an enforced separation from her mother at the age of 7 when she was sent to boarding school; the resulting trauma was intensified at the sudden death of her mother when she was 12.
- THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER.
- BEING CAST AS A GIRL IN A PLAY. A COUPLE of years later I acted in my first school play, playing the part of a girl. I was very shy but as soon as I was playing Lucy I became confident and happy and just loved it.
- FINDING OUT I WASN’T ALONE. WHEN I was 17 I worked as a volunteer in a mental hospital in the Borders. One of the psychiatrists lent me a book called Childhood and Society and it was all about the way different societies brought up children.
- MEETING SUE. I WAS in Spain for a year when I was at St Andrews University studying Spanish and Arabic. One of my flatmates in St Andrews worked on the student newspaper and he sent me copies of it.
May 16, 2017 · WHEN Jo Clifford's play, War in America, opens at the former Royal High School in Edinburgh in just over a week's time, the scenario it depicts might seem worryingly familiar. Clifford, after...
Oct 24, 2009 · ONE of Scotland's most respected playwrights, Jo Clifford talks about the long, painful journey to becoming an 'out' transgendered woman. JO CLIFFORD slips into the seat next to me at the...
Jun 16, 2011 · Jo Clifford. @JoCliffordPlays. Playwright, performer, transwoman, father & grandma. Author of about 80 plays, parent of two beautiful daughters. In love with life. Hoping the best, always... Edinburgh teatrodomundo.com Joined June 2011. 1,160 Following. 3,583 Followers.
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Dec 13, 2018 · Jo Clifford is performing the play at the Traverse in Edinburgh. Almost a decade after it was first performed Jo Clifford says her play The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven is...
