Abigail C. Onwunali

Abigail C. Onwunali (she/her) is a Nigerian-American storyteller whose work spans playwriting, performance, and poetry. She is a member of the 2026 Page 73 Writers Group, a 2025 NYTW 2050 Artistic Fellow, a New Harmony Project Resident, and a recipient of Faultline Theatre’s Irons in the Fire Award. A Princess Grace Award winner and Red Bull Theater Short New Play Festival winner, Abigail is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Obie-winning Youngblood collective and an alumna of the Liberation Theater Company Residency Program. Her work has been recognized as a finalist for the Fire This Time Festival and Rattlestick’s Terrence McNally New Work Incubator, and as a semi-finalist for Ars Nova’s Artist-in-Residence, Forge NYC, and the Colt Coeur Residency.

As a performer, she appeared in the five-time Tony-nominated Jaja’s African Hair Braiding and won the Elliot Norton Award for her lead role in The Grove at The Huntington Theatre Company, where she was also a two-time nominee. She will play Martha Pentecost in the 2026 Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. A graduate of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and an inaugural member of Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Mentorship Program, Abigail creates ritual-driven work that conjures the unseen and illuminates the inner lives of Black women through ceremony and story.