On Jo ADAMSON’s business card is Alfred Hitchcock’s statement: “Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” While she is a published poet, short story writer, and essayist, she finds that the writing of plays is the most rewarding, and that creating drama fills life with meaning and purpose.
Her plays have been staged in Washington, Oregon, California, Florida, West Virginia and Victoria, B.C. She writes plays with strong women characters, and feels accomplished when something she has written resonates with a member of the audience.
She is particularly excited that her full-length satirical play on technology and a dysfunctional family won the James Sunwall Prize for new comedy at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre in Gainesville (FL), 2002.
Her play Doppelganger appears in an anthology entitled Great Short Plays. Volume 5. 2007, from Playscripts, Inc.
Over a dozen of her monologues and scenes from her plays have appeared in collections from Smith & Kraus, Inc.
Other publishers who have accepted her work are Applause Books, Meriwether Press Ltd, and Heinemann Books. She is listed in Women in American Theatre, Helen Krich Chinoy, Linda Walsh Jenkins (Theatre Communications Group).
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