Nneka Onuorah

Nneka Onuorah (born 1988) is an American director and producer. She is best known for her directorial debut, The Same Difference, about gender roles in the Black lesbian community. She received a 2022 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program for her work on Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls. Her father is Nigerian and her mother is African-American. She moved to Atlanta to live with her grandmother in fifth grade and moved back to Queens for high school. She studied dance at Broadway Dance Center, and later received her associate degree in psychology from LaGuardia Community College.

Career In 2009, Onuorah did an internship at BET, and she was subsequently hired as a producer. She worked on Black Girls Rock! and various music documentaries.

In 2019, Onuorah and co-director/co-producer Giselle Bailey released a documentary called Burn Down the House about Parisian dancer Kiddy Smile, which premiered at NewFest LGBTQ Film Festival.

In 2021, Onuorah and Bailey directed and produced the documentary The Legend of the Underground, about the Nigerian LGBTQ community and its members who have left the country seeking asylum due to anti-LGBTQ laws. Onuorah won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program for her work on the series.

She directed and produced Megan Thee Stallion's 2024 documentary Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words.

Personal life Onuorah is a lesbian. She began to identify as a lesbian at age 14. She was raised Christian.