Abigail C. Onwunali

(Bio as of September 2026)

Abigail C. Onwunali is a Nigerian-American storyteller working across playwriting, performance, and poetry. Her plays have been developed with New York Theatre Workshop, Red Bull Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Liberation Theater Company, Fault Line Theatre, and Yale Cabaret. Her play Blood Be Sweet will be part of New York Theatre Workshop’s 2026–27 season. She is a 2025 New Harmony Project Fellow and recipient of the 2025 Irons in the Fire Residency, 2026 La MaMa Experiments in Playwriting Fellowship, 2026 Page 73 Writers Group, and 2025–26 NYTW 2050 Artistic Fellowship. She is a member of EST’s Obie Award-winning Youngblood collective.

As an actor, Abigail has appeared on Broadway in Jaja’s African Hair Braiding and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, directed by Debbie Allen. She holds an MFA in Acting from Yale and was part of the inaugural Lena Waithe Hillman Grad Mentorship Program cohort. Her work centers Nigerian heritage, ancestral memory, and the emotional and spiritual depth of Black women through ritual, language, poetry, and imagination.