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Jocelyn Bioh
Born
New York City, New York, U.S.
Education
Ohio State University (BA) Columbia University (MFA)
Occupation
actor, playwright, writer
Awards
Lortel Award for Outstanding Play (2018) John Gassner Playwriting Award Hull-Warriner Award (2018)
Jocelyn Bioh is a Ghanaian-American writer, playwright and actor. She graduated from Ohio State University with a BA in English and got her master's degree in Playwriting from Columbia University. Jocelyn's Broadway credits include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. She has performed in regional and off-Broadway productions of An Octoroon, Bootycandy and For Colored Girls. She has written many of her own plays that have been produced in national and collegiate theaters. Some of her more well-known works include Nollywood Dreams and School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play. Bioh is a playwright with Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) and Atlantic Theater Company, is a resident playwright at Lincoln Center and is a 2017-18 Tow Playwright-in-Residence with MCC.[1] She is a writer on the Hulu show Tiny Beautiful Things.
^News Desk, BWW. "Cast, Creatives Set for Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play at MCC Theater". Broadway World. Wisdom Digital Media. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
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