JO DiNOZZI (Assistant Fight Director)

Jo is a Director, Producer, Actress, Voice Actress, Audiobook Narrator, Fight Director and Stage Combat Choreographer. She is also a transgender advocate and activist as well as the head Artistic Director, President, and CEO of A Sketch of New York Productions Inc.  

As a Fight Director she has choreographed many shows in New York City, including A Sketch of New York, Ulysses, Our New York, Christmastime in the City, More New York Stories, Marisol, Chicago, A Play of Sorts, Oldtimer's Game, Doubt that the Stars Are Fire, Running Out of Time, Lady Macbeth, Lenin's Embalmers, Star Wars: The Trade Federation, Duck Hunter Shoots Angel, Star Wars: Eclipse of the Force, Mary V, Homage, Dark Play or: Stories for Boys, Lilly Riggs, Satire Off-Broadway, Breakdown, Fool's Gold, Theophany, and, for many years, the New York Renaissance Faire. Jo has also assisted Fight Master J. David Brimmer with their classes at NYU as well as on shows including Coriolainus, Ragtime, Counterfeit Opera, Sweeney Todd, Guide for the Homesick, Twelfth Night, The Bacchae, Waiting for Lefty, Wet Brain, The Three Musketeers, American (Tele)Visions, Gnit, Target, Wolf Play, Drift, Hamlet, Fairview, Is God Is, Hangmen, Yen, Animal, Artificial Jungle, Samara, ’Tis Pity She's A Whore, and Futurity. Jo is proudly the world's first openly transgender Fight Director with credits in Broadway shows.

Outside of theater, she is the co-leader of the transgender advocacy and education activism group, TQVoices. 

Thanks to my backbone, my Gem. Couldn't do it without you. Fortune favors the bold.