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About
Antoinette Nwandu is an American playwright and writer for stage, television, and film, originally from Los Angeles and now based in New York. A graduate of Harvard University, the University of Edinburgh, and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she is the recipient of the 2018 Whiting Award, the 2017 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, among other prestigious honors. Nwandu’s play Pass Over premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in 2017 and at Lincoln Center in 2018. Her other works include Black Boy & the War, 4 Sustenance, and BREACH: a manifesto on race in America through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate.