Azudi Onyejekwe

Azudi Onyejekwe is a Brooklyn-based playwright, director, actor, musician, and proud first-generation Igbo-American whose work centers stories of the African diaspora while interrogating representation, inheritance, and cultural memory. He is the Founding Artistic Director of The Liminal Theatre Collective, a multidisciplinary nonprofit company dedicated to developing and producing new works by artists of color while cultivating the next generation of diverse theatremakers.

His plays include The War Between Us (Semifinalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2026) and In Her House (world premiere, The Flea Theater, 2025). He was also named a Semifinalist for The Movement x Black List Ladder Commission (2025). His writing has been published by The Theatre Times and The Korean...

Azudi Onyejekwe is a Brooklyn-based playwright, director, actor, musician, and proud first-generation Igbo-American whose work centers stories of the African diaspora while interrogating representation, inheritance, and cultural memory. He is the Founding Artistic Director of The Liminal Theatre Collective, a multidisciplinary nonprofit company dedicated to developing and producing new works by artists of color while cultivating the next generation of diverse theatremakers.

His plays include The War Between Us (Semifinalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2026) and In Her House (world premiere, The Flea Theater, 2025). He was also named a Semifinalist for The Movement x Black List Ladder Commission (2025). His writing has been published by The Theatre Times and The Korean Theatre Journal, and his words on the intersection of theatre and social justice have been featured in Gothamist, BroadwayWorld, and American Theatre Magazine.

As a director, Azudi has developed new works across New York City at venues including The Flea Theater, Theaterlab, Teatro Círculo, The Producers' Club, The Kumble Theater, The Irma Sandrey Theatre, 54 Below, Mile Square Theatre, and beyond. His original compositions have been featured on stages at The Flea Theater, Theaterlab, and 54 Below. His directing work prioritizes amplifying marginalized voices and creating spaces for stories that challenge dominant narratives about identity, belonging, and resistance.

As a performer, Azudi’s career spans Broadway (original casts of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 and Violet), TV/Film (Madam Secretary, HairBrained, and the forthcoming short To The Deep), and Tony-winning regional theaters including The Guthrie Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and American Repertory Theater.

He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors’ Equity Association, and an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

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Scripts

What She Left Us

by Azudi Onyejekwe

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

Set in a hospital waiting room in Mexico, What She Left Us follows estranged sisters Marisol ("Mary") and Isabella Reyes as they wait for news of their mother's surgery. Mary, who left Mexico years ago and reinvented herself in America, returns carrying guilt, success, and distance. Isabella, who stayed behind to care for their mother through illness, carries exhaustion, resentment, and a quieter grief.

As the...

Set in a hospital waiting room in Mexico, What She Left Us follows estranged sisters Marisol ("Mary") and Isabella Reyes as they wait for news of their mother's surgery. Mary, who left Mexico years ago and reinvented herself in America, returns carrying guilt, success, and distance. Isabella, who stayed behind to care for their mother through illness, carries exhaustion, resentment, and a quieter grief.

As the hours stretch on, old wounds rise to the surface: questions of abandonment, assimilation, sacrifice, and the cost of survival. Through humor, memory, and the haunting repetition of their mother's voice on an old cassette loop, the sisters are forced to confront the love that has endured beneath years of silence. What She Left Us is an intimate chamber play about what we owe the people we came from, and whether reconciliation is still possible when the door finally opens.

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In Her House

by Azudi Onyejekwe

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

In May 2020, after the recent death of their Igbo matriarch, four siblings gather to clear her home in two days. As they grieve, reminisce, and fall into old rhythms within the house, memory and myth blur, long-buried tensions surface, and the light she left on forces them to see each other clearly for the first time.

Set entirely in Mama's New Jersey living room, one month after her virtual funeral, In Her...

In May 2020, after the recent death of their Igbo matriarch, four siblings gather to clear her home in two days. As they grieve, reminisce, and fall into old rhythms within the house, memory and myth blur, long-buried tensions surface, and the light she left on forces them to see each other clearly for the first time.

Set entirely in Mama's New Jersey living room, one month after her virtual funeral, In Her House is a close-quartered exploration of sibling dynamics, intergenerational inheritance, the tension between accountability and unconditional love, and grief's refusal to follow a linear path. With original music woven throughout, the play asks what it means to come home when the person who held it all together is gone.

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