Lupita in Broadway production

FILE - In a Sunday, March 2, 2014 file photo, Lupita Nyong'o arrives at the Oscars, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Nyong’o says the moments after she won her Academy Award this year were a blur and time stood still.But she says in the July 2014 issue of Vogue there’s one thing she does remember: worrying she would trip on her way to the podium. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)

Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o will star in Public Theatre’s Broadway production Eclipsed . The play is written by Danai Gurira, who is know as samurai sword-wielding Michonne in The Walking Dead , reported E!Online. Nyong’o, 32, will make her New York stage debut in the production, which is also the play’s NYC premiere.

Eclipsed is set during the Liberian Civil War and follows the captive wives of a rebel officer. “Danai Gurira has written a brilliant play, ripped from the headlines, that looks at the terrible conflicts in post-colonial Africa with an eye that is both incisive and deeply compassionate,” Public Theatre artistic director Oskar Eustis said in a statement.

“A feminist reading of the Liberian Civil War, a war that was ended by women, Eclipsed is both heartbreaking and profoundly life-affirming,” the statement added.