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. The award includes a $50,000 prize as well as a limited edition of Keith Carter’s iconic photograph of Horton Foote.
This item is found in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. Williamstown Theatre Festival commissioned “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” which had its Broadway premiere in October 2023 and earned five Tony nominations, including Best Play. “Ms.
Bioh’s dazzling play is set in a bustling hair braiding shop in Harlem where we meet a lively and eclectic group of West African hair braiders as they transform their neighborhood clients.
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