Okwui Okpokwasili (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces. The child of immigrants from Nigeria, Okpokwasili was born and raised in the Bronx, and the histories of these places and the girls and women who inhabit them feature prominently in much of her work. Her productions include the Bessie Award-winning Bronx Gothic and the performance installation Sitting on a Man’s Head. In 2018, she received a Princeton University Hodder Fellowship, a Herb Alpert Award in Dance, a Doris Duke Artist Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She was the inaugural artist for the Kravis Studio Residency program at MoMA in 2022. In 2025, she received an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.