Pent Up: A Revenge Dance This was her first collaborative piece with her husband Born. She won a 2010 New York Dance Award and a 2009 Performance
Bessie Award for Outstanding Production. Centering on a mother and daughter, the work considered cultural and generational clashes.
Bronx Gothic In this 90-minute one-woman semi-autobiographical performance which she also choreographed, Okpokwasili plays two young black girls talking about growing up, feeling vulnerable, and discovering sexuality. As the audience enters, she is already on the stage and is trembling in a dark slip. Eventually, she begins to speak the dialogue of the two girls in conversation. Cultural critic
Hilton Als praised this piece in a 2017 review of ''Poor People's TV Room''.
When I Return Who Will Receive Me A group performance involving seven female performers singing, speaking, and dancing, this work was staged in the underground magazine of Fort Jay at
Governors Island in July 2016 as part of
The River to River Festival. This performance included fragments of research on Nigerian history as it relates to women's bodies that were used to develop ''Poor People's TV Room''. In an interview with Jenn Joy for
Bomb magazine, Okpokwasili stated that the piece "is about a critical absence that I feel when a tragedy happens—like the kidnapping of girls by Boko Haram and the Women's War in Nigeria. My work is not explicitly about the incredible women in northern Nigeria who came together to shame their government into doing something to get these 300 abducted girls back. African women are not just victims of colonizers and oppressive or corrupt governments. They have been building collectives and advocating and fighting to be visible for a long time. I don’t want to make documentary work—but I don’t want these women to disappear, either. My piece is about visibility." ==Awards and honors==