Given the play she is starring in is called Bondagers some people have got the wrong idea - but the dirt only comes from the tons of earth which set the scene in the play about the lives of 19th century female agricultural labourers.
Jayd said: "Everyone I have spoken to, when I said I am doing a play called Bondagers, their mouth kind of falls open because they think it is something else and I am like, 'No, no, it is about these really awesome women who work on a farm in the 1800s'.
HIT Jayd with David Morrissey and Katherine Kelly in The Field of Blood and, centre, with Bondagers cast.
CREAM OF THE CROP Jayd researched the lives of the 19th century bondagers for her new play
1991 Sue Glover's
Bondagers, about female labourers in the Borders, was hailed as a Scottish classic and continues to be revived to this day.
ABYGONE world of "bondagers" - female farm labourers - is being brought back to life in a local film to be screened in Northumberland later this month.
"In a way bondagers were quite well off as they had cash in their pocket, which a hind's wife wouldn't have."
She'd already written a book on the subject - The Bondagers, published by Glendale Local History Society in 2008 - before deciding a turbulent period in the 1800s, which spelled the end for the bondage system, could prove an interesting basis for a drama.
The result is a true community effort which enlisted members of amateur dramatic societies, including those from Berwick, Wooler and Belford, to play the bondagers, hinds and families and, on the side of the gentry, the vicar and farmer and squire.
Award-winning play, set in the Borders in the 19th century, tells the story of the
Bondagers, the women workers of the great Border Farms of that period.
Bulgarian sailors stranded in Shetland find love in a play by
Bondagers' writer Sue Glover.