I'm excited to share a series of conversations with actresses who starred in Jocelyn Bioh's play, School Girls: Or the African Mean Girls Play. These interviews were recorded with students at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland. This fall, I developed a program for Jewish high schools, which are majority White spaces, to explore plays by Black playwrights, to read and watch those plays, discuss the themes, expand the art they love, and perhaps most importantly, to interview Black actors and directors who have made those plays come alive in performance. This interview is with Ciera Dawn, who played Paulina at School Girls' Chicago production at the Goodman Theater. Ciera talked to us about finding the physicality of Paulina, a young woman who knows her power and potential, and she shared thoughts on her professional journey from Louisiana to Boston to Chicago to LA.

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