Clifford, Jo, 1950-

LC control no.	no 93001204
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR6053.L4926
Personal name heading	Clifford, Jo, 1950- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Clifford, John, 1950-
Other standard no.	nm5546994
Associated country	Great Britain
Located	England Fife (Scotland) Edinburgh (Scotland)
Birth date	1950-03-22
Place of birth	Staffordshire (England) Derby (England)
Field of activity	Drama Acting Spanish literature--Translations into English
Profession or occupation	Dramatists Actors Critics Translators Nurses' aides
Found in	His Light in the village, 1991: (John Clifford) p. preceding t.p. (b. 1950, No. Staffordshire, Eng.; lives Scotland) Every one, 2010: t. p. (Jo Clifford) p. 1 (author of approximately 70 other works in every dramatic medium including Light in the village) Clifford, Jo. Every one, 2016: title page (Jo Clifford) prefatory pages (Jo Clifford is a playwright and performer who lives in Edinburgh. She is the the author of about eighty plays, many of which have been performed all over the world. Her Great Expectations makes her the first openly transgendered woman playwright to have had a play on in London's West End. She is a proud father and grandmother) Teatro do mundo website, March 6, 2018: home page (Jo Clifford; Jo is a writer, performer, poet and teacher based in Edinburgh. She is the author of about 80 plays, many of which have been translated into various languages and performed all over the world. Her transition from John to Jo has enabled her to become an actor and performer) The Scotsman, October 24, 2009, viewed online March 6, 2018: interview (one of Scotland's most respected playwrights, Jo Clifford talks about the long, painful journey to becoming an 'out' transgendered woman. A few years ago Clifford started making the transition from John to Jo and these days she refers to herself as a transgendered person who passes as a woman. Clifford has grappled with her gender identity ever since she looked in the mirror at the age of five and didn't recognise the boy staring back at her. After partner Sue Innes died in 2005, Clifford made the decision she had been grappling with for decades. "I realised I couldn't go on living as a man. I couldn't bear people taking me for a man. I didn't want to be called Sir. I started taking hormones and a whole new life began." Clifford has since had one operation but has decided not to go through with full reassignment surgery. Clifford studied languages at St Andrews) <https://www.scotsman.com/news/interview-jo-clifford-playwright-1-1362412> The stage, March 4, 2016, viewed online March 6, 2018: features > interviews (playwright Jo Clifford; her first plays specifically on the subject of being transgender, in the early 1990s, were all turned down; the last 10 years she has been living openly as a woman. Clifford came to the theatre through performing in school plays; later academic work on 17th-century Spanish theatre, eventually writing a thesis on a play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Although that thesis was abandoned for a while, as Clifford attempted to start writing novels and took up a job as a nursing assistant to sustain an income, it was Calderon's El Medico De Su Honra that brought her to the stage. In an attempt to get back into the thesis, Clifford decided to translate the play. In 1980, with Robert Livingston, put on Calderon's The House of Two Doors. Aged 30, unemployed, trying to finish a thesis, living in Fife and doing nursing shifts, became a theatre and dance critic for The Scotsman; also worked doing adaptations, translations and radio work. CV: Jo Clifford; born: 1950, Derby) <https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/interviews/2016/jo-clifford-when-i-write-a-script-i-become-the-actor-playing-the-character/> IMDb, March 6, 2018 (Jo Clifford, writer; born March 22, 1950 in Derby, Derbyshire as John Clifford) <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5546994/>
Associated language	eng