Jo has been music director for youth and community theatre companies in California and North Carolina. She co-founded the Stone Stoup Theatre Company (SSTC) of Chapel Hill/Durham with Melissa Craib Dombrowski in 2021, and is also the Music Director and Conductor for the Durham Savoyards, a light opera company that performs annual shows at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC, and smaller concerts around the NC Triangle. Highlights of Jo's recent music direction include SSTC’s critically acclaimed productions of Cabaret, Ride the Cyclone, Into the Woods, and Something Rotten!; Durham Savoyards' social-media-inspired virtual production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience in April 2021, for which she also was audio engineer, as well as live performances of Pirates of Penzance and Yeomen of the Guard; and Center Theater Company’s Christmas Carol.