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At The Santa Fe International Film Festival, Variety’s Screenwriters To Watch Reveal How They Use Personal Inspiration to Tell Powerful Stories

Todd Gilchrist editor On Friday, Oct. 19, Variety partnered with the Santa Fe International Film festival to celebrate its 10 Screenwriters to Watch.

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‘The Acolyte’ Writer Jocelyn Bioh Wins 2024 Horton Foote Prize for Play, ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’

Andrés Buenahora editor Jocelyn Bioh, who has written for “The Acolyte” and “Tiny Beautiful Things” and will be featured on Variety’s “2024 10 Screenwriters to Watch” List, has won the 2024 Horton Foote Prize for her play “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.” Executive director Valerie Brea Ross and founder and prize board chair Mari Marchbanks announced the news Wednesday. Bioh will be presented the prize by the play’s director, Whitney White, on Oct. 7 at New York’s Lotos Club.

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‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’s’ Jocelyn Bioh on Becoming the First Black Woman Playwright Nominated for a Tony: ‘It’s For Every Single Black Woman Who Has Put Pen to Paper’

Angelique Jackson April 30 was a “great day” to be Jocelyn Bioh, playwright of the hit Broadway show “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.” Bioh was up to watch the Tony Awards nominations — “Me, my husband and my 10-month-old had a rare morning watching television,” she tells Variety over the phone hours later — but she wasn’t particularly anxious about what might or might not happen. “With all the rejection and all of the things I’ve experienced in my life as an artist, I’m prepared for anything,” she explains.

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Black Women on Broadway (BWOB) Awards To Honor Aisha Jackson, DeDe Ayite, And Irene Gandy On June 10

The  Black Women on Broadway Awards, which celebrates the legacy and achievements of Black women in the Broadway community, announced they are returning for their third annual in-person event where Irene Gandy, Aisha Jackson and DeDe Ayite will be honored. The 2024 BWOB Awards will take place in New York City at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers on June 10 for their work at the highest level of commercial live theater in the U.S. The awards show, which is an offshoot of the  Black Women on Broadway (BWOB) Instagram account  launched in June 2020 and lead by Oscar and Tony nominee Danielle Brooks, Amber Iman and Jocelyn Bioh, who just received a Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nomination for her Broadway play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.

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‘Gutenberg! The Musical’, ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ & Melissa Etheridge Take NY Stage – Broadway Box Office

A trio of new shows joined Broadway last week to mostly decent box office figures as the fall season begins to take shape.

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LaChanze, Taraji P. Henson & Madison Wells Live Join Broadway Producing Team Of ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment company Madison Wells Live, LaChanze and Taraji P. Henson have joined the producing team of Manhattan Theatre Club’s Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, a world premiere play written by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White heading to Broadway this fall.

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Idris Elba Boards U.K. Production of ‘School Girls’ as Associate Producer (EXCLUSIVE)

Naman Ramachandran “Luther” star Idris Elba has joined the team at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre as an associate producer for the U.K. production of “School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play” by Jocelyn Bioh, in association with Mark Gordon Pictures and Francesca Moody Productions. The play is set in Ghana’s prestigious Aburi Girls Boarding School in 1986, and follows Queen Bee Paulina and her crew as they await the arrival of the Miss Ghana pageant recruiter. It’s clear that Paulina is in top position to take the title until her place is threatened by Ericka – a beautiful and talented new transfer student. The cast includes Heather Agyepong, Bola Akeju, Deborah Alli, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers and Jadesola Odunjo, with further casting to be announced.

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Jocelyn Bioh’s ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ To Make 2023 World Premiere On Broadway

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, a new play written by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White, will make its Broadway debut in a world premiere production by the Manhattan Theatre Club next fall.

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How Two ‘Playwriting Sisters’ Are Restarting Shows After the Shutdown

Gordon Cox Theater EditorThe playwrights Jocelyn Bioh and Martyna Majok have a bond, in life and in their work. “I feel like Martyna and I are these playwriting sisters in terms of the groups of people and the stories that we’re trying to uplift in our work,” said Bioh, speaking on the new episode of Variety’s Stagecraft podcast.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:Onstage, they both tell stories about people whose lives don’t often get a theatrical spotlight.

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