As a playwright and theatremaker, I am most invested in telling the stories that get erased in the discursive cementing of history. My work centers the experiences and humanity of the historically marginalized, probing and dismantling oppressive Eurocentric epistemology while shattering the norms of what a theater experience can be.

I believe in robust collaboration and relentless curiosity that probes but does not set answers in stone. My plays demand active audience engagement rather than passive consumption. They refuse easy resolutions because the communities I write about have never been afforded easy resolutions.

I am the son of two remarkable Nigerian-born parents (Igbo) who always stressed the importance of standing in the power of my transnational identity and constantly interrogating nuance-free systems that seek to erase rather than embrace the singularity of one's identity, and its attached structural implications. I carry that mission into every play I write and every performance experience that I direct.

The work asks: Whose stories get canonized? Whose humanity gets centered? What narrative structures are themselves colonial impositions? My plays insist that African diasporic stories can hold their own cultural logic without bending toward Western dramatic conventions.

—Zudi