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Jo Zealand

Since 1992 Jo Zealand has directed, devised, written and produced over 40 theatre pieces and facilitated 100's of workshops in clown, voice, movement, acting and writing with a wide variety of people and communities. She has recently completed an Advanced Diploma in Professional Screenwriting, and her film 'Like You Do' was nominated for best performance at South Australian Short film awards 2006.

Jo was Artistic Director of No Strings Attached for 5 years (1999-2004), and led the cast of In Your Wildest Dreams to the 2001 KickstART Festival in Vancouver. She currently works as a freelance performer, recently touring her one-woman show 'Oz Rock Chick' in metro Adelaide and touring to Singapore with Slack Taxi. She is co-director of 'The Jump' -- a workplace training performance group -- and currently she performs with 'Three Men in A Tub', an outdoor traveling theatre performance.

She most recently co-directed Emma Harper's outdoor silent clown show for Fringe Street Theatre Commission 2010 and performed'Dooda', her own style of absurd cabaret for the Adelaide Fringe. She is also the Coordinator of No Strings Attached's pilot training program called Preparing the Garden.