Jocelyn Bioh: Specific and Universal
The writer of ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ talks about her process, her curiosity about characters, and her play’s heartening success.
All Stories About Jocelyn Bioh
Jocelyn Bioh: ‘African Comedy’ Is Not a Contradiction in Terms
The writer of ‘School Girls’ and ‘Goddess’ writes stories American theatres haven’t seen before but that audiences immediately recognize.
The Familiar and the New: Teaching Black Plays in Jewish High Schools
How a plan to teach ‘Pipeline’ and ‘School Girls’ grew into a curriculum stressing both the plays’ universality and specificity on issues of race, colorism, and inequity.
This Year’s Steinberg Playwright Award: 20 Playwrights Rather Than 1
This year the annual award will be given to 20 playwrights in an effort to meet the immediate needs of writers.
Mean and Green, With a Splash (or More) of Ankara Print
3 costume designers indulge their ’80s nostalgia to varying degrees in 3 separate productions of Jocelyn Bioh’s ‘School Girls.’
What a Girl Wants
‘The Wolves,’ ‘Dance Nation,’ and ‘School Girls,’ all by young female playwrights, show girlhood in all of its complexity and ferocity.
