Jojo O’Neil (she/they) is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary playwright, performance creator, actor, and trans artist from Markham, Ontario, and based in Montreal, Quebec. Her work is frequently guided by memory, nostalgia, chaos, and trauma, invoking and echoing voices of trans and queer elders from generations before her. Her work is often presented with the use of multimedia, regularly utilizing her skills in solo performance, video projection, audio mixing, and drag. She is currently a student at The National Theatre School of Canada, studying Playwriting. Her plays include When The Sun Consumes Us: Or, A Melodrama Called ‘Castration’ (dramaturgy by Ann-Marie MacDonald), a stage adaptation of Eight Bites, a short story by Carmen Maria Machado (dramaturgy by Nick Carpenter), Parricide/The Harpy (reading as a part of Cardinal Collective’s ‘ONLY Cabaret’ 2023), & DREAMHOUSE (Concordia University directed by Laura Quigley 2020). She is a co-founder of Toronto performance group Cardinal Collective, producing variety shows, cabarets, and theatre performances in Toronto’s east end since 2022. Jojo holds a BFA in Acting for The Theatre from Concordia University, and was a 2024 artist-in-residence at Mudhouse artist residency in Agios Ioannis, Crete.