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Before she was Okoye, Danai Gurira wrote the first Broadway play with an all-Black, all-female cast and creative team Movies & TV Before she was Okoye, Danai Gurira wrote the first Broadway play with an all-Black, all-female cast and creative team Danai Gurira, raised in Zimbabwe, is known as Okoye in Black Panther and Michonne in The Walking Dead. She is also a Tony-nominated playwright whose play Eclipsed, about women in the Liberian civil war, reached Broadway in 2016 with Lupita Nyong'o.