Nowhere Boys

Production Designer for Series One of Nowhere Boys for Matchbox Pictures and ABC3

Directed by Daina Reid, Peter Carstairs, Alister Grierson and Craig Irvin

 

WINNER – AACTA Award  – Best Children’s Television Series, 2014

WINNER – Logie Award – Most Outstanding Children’s Program, 2014

WINNER –  International Youth Jury Prize, Prix Jeunesse, 2014

WINNER – Kidscreen Award – Best New Teen Series, 2015

NOMINATED – International Emmy Award  – Best Children’s Television Series, 2015

NOMINATED – BAFTA award – International Children’s Series, 2015

“TV Picks – I love the actors, I love how it looks”

– News Limited, November 7, 2013

“If there is one good test of a show’s artistic success it could be this: after watching the first episode of Nowhere Boys, I just wanted to watch the second straight away.  And I’m not even in the target demographic… The fact that it is so well produced and performed is just the icing on the cake.”

– TV Tonight, November 2, 2013

Sunday Age Critics Choice,  November 3, 2013

“ADDICTIVE ENTERTAINMENT… it’s good stuff: pacey and addictive yoof-tainment with snazzy packaging and a compelling “what if” existential premise…. Nowhere Boys is off to a roaring start. It arrives bearing hallmarks of a future Australian classic — one part Gillian Rubinstein, one part Rod Serling — and solicits the best kind of response a local production can hope for: we leave wondering why the industry doesn’t make more shows like it.”

– Crikey, August 1, 2013

Woodley

Production Designer of Series One of Woodley for ABC TV.

Directed by Trent O’Donnell.

– “There’s no other way to say it, you’re in for an absolute treat…The colours by production designer Jo Briscoe give this a cinematic feel… Bravo!”  Critic’s Choice, Four Stars

-The Age,  Feb 2012

La Traviata

Set and Costume Co-Designer with Genevieve Dugard

La Traviata by Verdi

Directed by Rachel McDonald

Oz Opera, National Tour, 2010-11

Photography by Jeff Busby and Albert Comptor

Designers Jo Briscoe and Genevieve Dugard set the work inside an expansive metal art nouveau gazebo that worked equally successfully as a salon or gilded cage, and the cast was outfitted in stylish late 19th century punk-influenced costumes

–  The Australian, July 2010

The design by Jo Briscoe and Genevieve Dugard, referencing Toulouse-Lautrec and Aubrey Beardsley by way of Tim Burton, was glamorous

–  BMA Magazine, October 2010

…a giant, gilded cage, impressive, ingenious and evocative … plaudits to designers, Jo Briscoe and Gen Dugard

– Crikey, September 2010

 

Madagascar

Set and Costume Designer

Madagascar by JT Rogers

Directed by Sam Strong

Melbourne Theatre Company, Fairfax Theatre, Melbourne, 2010

Photography by Jeff Busby

“Jo Briscoe has created the Roman apartment to which the three characters have been drawn and it is beautiful in its simplicity… though there is never a glimpse of the outside world, in combination with Paul Jackson’s lighting, it creates a scene that is inextricably Italian.”

-Australian Stage, 19 Feb 2010

Lying Cheating Bastard

Set and Costume design

Lying Cheating Bastard by Nicholas Hammond and James Galea

Directed by Nicholas Hammond

Sydney Seasons and National Tour, 2009-10

“The most astonishing thing about this production, aside from Galea’s deft sleight-of-hand skills, is the set design by Jo Briscoe.  With a high-gloss black floor and walls and brilliant lighting ingrained in the structure, it is truly dazzling… this design transforms the theatre, giving it a depth and breadth I have never come across.  The set alone (and the tricks) is enough to make the evening well worth your while”

– Sun Herald, July 2009

“Co-writer and director Nicholas Hammond’s production is very slick, aided greatly by Jo Briscoe’s glossy, piano-black set”

– Sydney Morning Herald, July 2009

 “Jo Briscoe’s glitzy casino-edgy apartment set and Matt Marshall’s lighting have transformed the Fitzroy space beyond recognition”

– Stage Noise, July 2009

“Set design by Jo Briscoe and lighting by Matthew Marshall was another wow factor”

– AussieTheatre.com, July 2010