A former arts journalist and a lawyer who quit the profession the day she was admitted to the bar, Jo Tan is a prolific performer and writer who won Best Actress at the Straits Times Life Theatre Awards 2020 for her self-penned one-woman show Forked. She spent a year in a Parisian clown college, is a well-known Singaporean drag king, and works on stage, on television and in film, telling familiar stories from unexpected perspectives.