Abigail C. Onwunali is a multi-faceted Nigerian American storyteller whose works have been produced by Red Bull Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Liberation Theater Company, and Yale Cabaret. She has been a finalist for the Fire This Time Festival and a semi-finalist for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, La Mama’s Experiments in Playwriting Fellowship, and Rattlestick’s Terrence McNally New Work Incubator. Currently, she is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theater’s Obie-winning Youngblood program and the Liberation Theater Company. Abigail is a Princess Grace Award winner and one of the Red Bull Theater’s Short New Play Festival winners.
Also a talented poet, Abigail’s slam poetry has been viewed worldwide. She holds a degree in Acting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and was an inaugural member of Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Mentorship Program. Drawing from her Nigerian heritage, Abigail creates theater that centers her people and brings her ancestry alive on stage.