Smaxie said: "Worth mentioningthat Bioh was an acclaimed actor before becoming a playwright. She wrote School Girls while she was appearing in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Barrymore Theatre, which coincidentally is a few steps away from where she will now appear in her own School Girls at the Friedman and where she made her playwrighting debut with Jaja's African Hair Braiding.She's also Ghanian-American, which lends some additional authenticity. Should be fun!"
Bioh has largely stepped away from acting as her writing career has taken off, so it will be great to see her back onstage. She was great in EVERYBODY at Signature too. No shade to Patina Miller, but I'm seeing the show a few days after Bioh's run and kind of disappointed not to catch her.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
