Jo Randerson

[3] She wrote, directed and performed in theatre productions for the Victoria University of Wellington Student Drama Club.

At the same time she also wrote for and performed at BATS Theatre Wellington, and made television appearances as a stand-up comedian.

[5] Randerson won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award in 1997 for her first play Fold (part of the Young and Hungry season at BATS).

[7] In a review for The Keys to Hell in Landfall 209, Anna Smith wrote Randerson's world is a "holding tank" inside which we shriek, or remain terrified and mute witnesses to the despair that is life – a theme rehearsed over and over.

[8]In the 2021 New Year Honours, Randerson was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the performing arts.