On a Wednesday afternoon before curtain, theater director Ibi Owolabi is excited to share the call she received from her mother five minutes previously about a surprise television appearance on a local television show.
“My headshot and stuff was there, and she was like, ‘You’re on TV!'” she says with a laugh.
It is one of several media nods the director has received since the opening of True Colors Theatre’s production of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” a character-driven comedy staged at the Southwest Arts Center.
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