Zainabu Jallo is a scholar and playwright.
Her academic and creative works have been conveyed through Fellowships at the Sundance Theater Institute, The Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, Residenz Theater Munich, Chateau Lavigny, the House of Writers in Switzerland and Carmago Foundation.
She is the author of award-winning plays Onions Make Us Cry, Holy Night, and My Sultan is a Rockstar. Other plays include We Take Care of Our Own, High on Eleven, A Divine Mission, There Goes My Bowtie in the Storm, The Revolutionary Carrot, White Elephants and Caught in the Blank.