Education
Onah received his Bachelor in theater from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and his Master of Fine Arts from the graduate film program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where he was selected as a Dean"s Fellow and a recipient of a Wayfare Entertainment Ventures Production Award. He is also a recipient of the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship. In 2009 Onah was selected as a directing talent at the Berlin Talent Campus and in 2010 as part of Tribeca All Access.
He is the brother of filmmaker Anthony Onah.