Ngozi Anyanwu is a multi hyphenated storyteller most recently seen performing in Nathan Alan Davis’s “The Refuge Plays” at a Roundabout Theatre with New Theatre workshop in 2023. She’s a 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award winner. Her most recent play “Last of the Love Letters,” premiered at the Atlantic Theater Company in fall 2021. Previous productions include “Good Grief” (Vineyard Theatre NYtime’s Critic’s pick in NYC / Center Theatre Group in LA) and “The Homecoming Queen” (sold-out world premiere run and a New York Times’s Critic’s pick at the Atlantic Theatre). “Good Grief” was on the Kilroys List 2016 and a semi finalist for the Princess Grace Award, and won the Humanitas Award. “The Homecoming Queen” was on the Kilroys List 2017 and was a Leah Ryan Finalist. Her play NIKE… (Kilroys List 2017) was workshopped at The New Black Fest in conjunction with The Lark and The Strand Festival in conjunction with A.C.T and Space on Ryder Farm and New York Stage and Film. Ngozi also has commissions with NYU, The Old Globe, Two Rivers Theatre, The Atlantic Theatre, and Steppenwolf.

Ngozi has also received residencies from LCT3, Space on Ryder Farm, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The New Harmony Project, New York Stage and Film and Page 73. She attended Point Park University (BA) and received her MFA in Acting from University of California, San Diego. She will have a world premiere of her next play, “Leroy and Lucy,” at Steppenwolf Theatre in 2024.