Okwui Okpokwasili

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Summary

Okwui Okpokwasili is an actor, writer, choreographer, and performance artist known for works including Bronx Gothic and Poor People’s TV Room. Her work often explores memory, girlhood, women’s bodies, and overlooked histories, especially those of black women and girls in the United States and Nigeria. She has described visibility and how Black and brown bodies are read as central concerns, and framed Poor People’s TV Room around Nigerian women’s agency and self-advocacy. No public partisan campaigning or formal DEI role is on record.