She is a member of the Ars Nova Play Group, and was the 2015–2016 Naked Angels Issues Playlab Resident at The New School for Performing Arts.
[2] Nwandu has worked with the Cherry Lane Mentor Project,[3] Page73,[4] Ars Nova,[5] The Flea,[6] Naked Angels, Fire This Time,[7] The Movement Theater Company,[8] WordBRIDGE, and Dreamscape Theatre.
[9] She has received the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award[10] for Flat Sam in 2009 and the Negro Ensemble Company's Douglas Turner Ward Prize.
[15] The play was recorded live at the Steppenwolf Theatre, adapted for film by co-director Danya Taymor and co-director and producer Spike Lee and premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 20, 2018.
[19] Her play Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate was staged at Victory Gardens Theater in 2018 by director Lisa Portes.