Jocelyn Bioh is an award-winning, Tony Award-nominated Ghanaian-American writer and performer from New York City. Broadway: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (5 Tony Award nominations, including Best Play); Off-Broadway: Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park: Merry Wives; MCC Theater: Nollywood Dreams, School Girls: Or, The African Mean Girls Play. International: Lyric Hammersmith (London): School Girls: Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. TV: Russian Doll, She’s Gotta Have It (Netflix), Tiny Beautiful Things (Hulu), The Acolyte (Disney+). Awards: Horton Foote Prize (2024), The Steinberg Playwright Award (2020), The Dramatist Guild Hull-Warriner Award (2018 and 2024), Lortel Award (2018), Drama Desk Award (2022), and was a 2017 Tow Playwriting Fellow. Jocelyn is also writing the live screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Once on This Island for Disney.
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