Jocelyn Bioh

Jocelyn Bioh
Born
EducationOhio State University (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)
Occupation
  • Actress, playwright, writer
AwardsLortel Award for Outstanding Play (2018)
John Gassner Playwriting Award
Hull-Warriner Award (2018)

Jocelyn Bioh is a Ghanaian-American writer, playwright and actress. She graduated from Ohio State University with a BA degree 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 Night-Time. 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. Among her best-known works are Nollywood Dreams (2015) and School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play (2017). 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. She is a writer on the Hulu show Tiny Beautiful Things.