Jo Clifford
Co-director, Queen Jesus Productions
Jo Clifford is a proud father and grandmother living in Edinburgh. She is internationally known as a performer and acclaimed author of 100 plays.
As a performer she is also best known for her her EVE (which she co-wrote with Chris Goode) and which she has been touring in the UK and in Brazil in a National Theatre of Scotland production.
As a playwright, her five play sequence FIVE DAYS WHICH CHANGED EVERYTHING has recently been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, her first play LOSING VENICE (first performed 1985) has recently been revived by the Orange Tree Theatre in London, her ANNA KARENINA has recently had a highly successful run in Tokyo, and her queer version of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW performed to great acclaim in Cardiff and Glasgow.
Susan Worsfold
Co-director, Queen Jesus Productions
Susan Worsfold is an award winning theatre director and voice practitioner specialising in the Nadine George Voice Work, having worked consistently with Nadine since 1994. She is co-director of the Nadine George Voice Centre and is Associate Teacher to the Centre for Voice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, from which she graduated with a BA Hons in Directing in 1998. NGVW is the basis for all of Susan’s practice: teaching and creating work across artistic disciplines both nationally and internationally. She has specifically developed Nadine’s work to support the arts and health sector, sign language interpreters, with Lung Ha - an ensemble company for actors with learning disabilities - and has worked with the LGBT Health Centre offering workshops to the Trans community. She works with classic and contemporary texts and has introduced the work at the Federal State University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (working into Portuguese) and designed and delivered a 2 month professional actor training course of NGVW & Shakespeare for YAZAN in Beirut, Lebanon. She currently delivers voice workshops in Scotland, France, Brazil and Lebanon. As a director, she has won 3 separate Made in Scotland Awards and been supported and commissioned by The National Theatre of Scotland, British Council Scotland, British Council Brazil & Creative Scotland. Her productions have toured to South America, Europe and USA.
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Annabel Cooper
Co-director, Queen Jesus Productions
Annabel is a freelance producer and performer based in Edinburgh. Current and recent projects include Luke Pell’s In the Ink Dark, Love Song to Lavender Menace by James Ley in association with Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven’s 10th Anniversary mini-season at The Tron and Untitled 2009 with Outspoken Arts Scotland. Annabel is founding director of Queen Jesus Productions and a practice companion with Luke Pell. She’s also worked as an associate producer with Fire Exit, JPP, Luminate and Red Bridge Arts and is co-founder of queer arts collective Dive Queer Party, producing cabrets, parties and events in partnership with Summerhall, The Traverse, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Gilded Balloon and Luminate.