By Kendall Murry 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. Along with director Lileana Blain-Cruz, who serves as director for Alliance Theatre’s production of “Bust,”
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