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Jocelyn Bioh

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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.