Mule Bone and
School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play,
The Rolling Stone,
The Lucky Ones and more. Here, she shares about her admiration for actor-playwright Jocelyn Bioh, with whom she worked on
School Girls.
School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play(Photo by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com)
Jocelyn Bioh is an actor and playwright whose play
School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play won the 2018 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award for New American Playwright and the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award. It was also nominated for an Off Broadway Alliance Award and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Bioh received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination in 2017 for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Hosted by Paul Holdengräber,
The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.
On Episode 156 of
The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Ayad Akhtar. They talk about Ayad’s most recent novel,
Homeland Elegies, and how Ayad thinks the book’s reception has been shaped by the ongoing pandemic. Paul and Ayad have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on issues of debt, American individualism, a writer’s relationship to ideology. Then, Paul asks Ayad about some of his influences. They discuss Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and the year that Ayad spent with Jerzy Grotowski.