Jo is a Production Designer working in film and television and is Senior Lecturer in Design at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Based in Melbourne, her credits include the award winning series Please Like Me (Series 3), Mustangs FC (Series 1), Upper Middle Bogan and Nowhere Boys (Series 1), comedy series The Katering Show (Series 2), Woodley, Little Lunch, The Edge of the Bush and Stories I Want to Tell You in Person for ABC and SBS’ The Family Law (Series 2) and The Late Session.
Film credits include Weedling, Elders, Oddlands, Polly and Me, Hammer or Claw and Hush. She also Art Directed Kill Me Three Times and worked as Costume Designer on Foxtel’s Conspiracy 365, as well as designing a number of commercials and music videos.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Design from Penn State University.
With a background in theatre set and costume design, Jo has extensive design credits for companies including Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Griffin, OzOpera, Legs on the Wall and ATYP, with shows that have toured both nationally and internationally. Recent credits include the 2022 Melbourne Theatre Company productions of The Sound Inside and Cyrano.
Awards
Winner – APDG Award for Production Design for a Television Production – The Katering Show Series Two
Highly Commended – APDG Award for Production Design for a Television Production – The Late Session
Jo is privileged to live and create on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations, and pays respects to elders, past and present, to all First Nations people, and acknowledges that sovereignty was never ceded.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
JO BRISCOE 