Jocelyn Bioh Will Star in Her School Girls on Broadway for 4 Performances Only

Key Points:

• Playwright Jocelyn Bioh will perform as Eloise Amponsah in four special performances of her play School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play on Broadway from October 9-11, stepping in for Patina Miller during her brief leave.
• This marks Bioh's return to Broadway acting since 2014's The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time and follows her 2023 Broadway playwriting debut with Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.
• School Girls is set in Ghana's Aburi Girls Boarding School in 1988 and centers on high school girls competing in a beauty pageant, complicated by the arrival of an American transfer student; it premiered Off-Broadway in 2017 and is now staged at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
• The current Broadway production is directed by Whitney White and features a cast including Jasmine Amy Rogers, Denée Benton, Erin Morton, Nia Otchere-Sarfo, Jordan Rice, Heather Alicia Simms, and Lucia Aremu, with design and production teams led by Teresa L. Williams, Qween Jean, and others.