When Jocelyn Bioh’s award-winning play School Girls, or the African Mean Girls Play makes its Broadway debut this September, the claws will come out. The students at Aburi Girls Boarding School will be competing to earn the title of Miss Ghana 1986 and Paulina will do anything to win. But mean girls and their antics aren’t just confined to school settings. Even in adulthood, catty behaviors, petty get-backs, and exclusion continue and the cast and creative team of School Girls can relate to trying to rise above (or return fire on) low frequency behavior. Yes, even gorgeous, talented Broadway stars have experienced feeling like they don’t fit in. Here’s advice from Lucia Aremu, Denée Benton, Patina Miller, Erin Morton, Nia Otchere-Sarfo, Jordan Rice, Jasmine Amy Rogers, Heather Alicia Simms, Whitney White, and Jocelyn Bioh on dealing with mean girls at any age.

Previews begin on September 8. Opening night of School Girls, or the African Mean Girls Play is Monday, September 28, 2026. Stay tuned and subscribe to read (or watch) my review when it’s ready!

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