- She was a 2016 Drama Desk nominee for Outstanding Music in a Play alongside such notable composers as Pulitzer and Tony winner Tom Kitt, and Oscar nominee Philip Glass.
- She sings and plays several instruments including violin, mandolin, guitar, as well as some piano and drums.
- At age nineteen, she graduated with a BA in Theatre and Creative Writing from Bard College at Simon's Rock. She then went on to earn an MFA in Acting at The New School.
- She is fluent in French and English, speaks some Spanish, a bit of Russian, as well as a few words of Kurdish, which she learned while shooting Chaplin of the Mountains (2013) on location in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2009.
- Bajou writes plays, screenplays, poetry, and fiction, and makes visual and interdisciplinary art. Her full-length play, Poetry, is a Quarterfinalist in the 2021 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition. Her poetry and visual art is featured or forthcoming in About Place Journal, Broad River Review, California Quarterly, Cathexis Northwest Press, Heavy Feather Review, Middlesex: a Literary Journal, Sheila-Na-Gig, South Florida Poetry Journal, SWIMM, The Abstract Elephant Magazine, The Closed Eye Open, This Broken Shore, Variant Literature, and Wild Roof Journal. Her first poetry collection, I Never Learned to Pray, is forthcoming in 2022.
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