Jaja’s African Hair Braiding

The Ghanaian-American performer and writer Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play) makes her Broadway playwrighting debut with an ensemble piece set among the West African employees of a hair-braiding salon in Harlem. Jazz star Somi Kakoma, who played Miram Makeba in last year's biomusical Dreaming Zenzile, leads the mostly female cast of ten as parlor owner Jaja; Whitney White (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord) directs the world premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club.