Jo is from the town of Bo'ness in Scotland. She first began her training at The Dance School of Scotland in Glasgow, then continuing in Epsom at Laine Theatre Arts.Her first appearance in a London West End show was at the New London Theatre playing Rumpleteaser in ANdrew Weber's Cats. She also understudied and played the roles of Demeter and Jemima in that same production. Later she was offered the role of Rumpleteaser in a video production of Cats.Some of her other theatre work includes Dance Captain/Swing on Disney's Beauty and the Beast, at the Dominion Theatre, London; Columbia in the national tour of The Rocky Horror Show; and Pearl, in the final cast of Starlight Express at the Apollo Theatre, Victoria.