Onicia Muller is a Caribbean-born storyteller who is currently freezing her buns off in Chicago. This award-winning writer gave up crime reporting to sling jokes, write scripts, and compose quotable bathroom prose (i.e., funny cards) for American Greetings. She’s hustling hard to get the most out of her M.F.A in screenwriting from Northwestern University.
“A ray of sunshine with a dark sense of humour, Onicia Muller knows how to weave a hilarious tale about the human condition with a thoughtfulness that demands deep consideration.” – Rebellious Magazine
Since 2011, Onicia has been a consistent source for culture and entertainment commentary. Just Being Funny is her second long-running column for The Daily Herald. Her comedy speaks to politically-active Caribbean Millennials and Gen-Xers.
“I love how grounded in everyday experience your humour is, it’s very relatable and makes me feel less crazy <3” – Maya Montrell, Millennial
In 2018, IGNITE Caribbean granted her their 30 Under 30 award for her work as a cultural influencer. That year, Women In Comedy also named her a funny female comic to follow in Chicago.
Onicia’s first stand-up comedy performance was back in 2015 at the Laugh Factory’s open mic. Since then, she’s been a featured comedy act at Chicago’s top all-female comedy shows: the kates and The Mother Cluckers. She’s also opened for Majah Hype, the Caribbean King of Comedy.
“My words will not do the justice on how much you inspire me and empower me every day…You are talented, beautiful, and witty…You a boss ass bitch.”
– Allison Pope, Senior Ego Inflator at OniciaMuller.com
Her primary mission is
to use comedy to achieve world domination encourage empathy
and understanding.
Cool Things
2025 – Joined CynCity Creative‘s artist cohort as a writing and comedy talent.
2025 – Creative Cypher included Rest in Piss, Devin Damuels as part of its XL Lab. The feature-length romantic comedy leading roles were read by LaNisa Frederick, Tosin Morohunfola, and Osiris Khepera. The Table read was directed by Okema T. Moore.
2025 – The Wonderful Counsellor, a feature drama by Peter Sagnia premiers at Caribbean Cinemas. The film was co-written by Diane DeLaHaye and Onicia Muller.
2024 – Animated and Produced Nonprofitable a 5-episode web series.
2023 – Performed Good Island Gyal, a half-hour comedy special, before a live audience on St. Maarten.
2022 – Commissioned by Foresee Foundation to write Kalani the Fisherman, a Caribbean folklore.
2021 – Commissioned by Peter Sagnia Productions to write the pilot episode of The Wonderful Counsellor, a 5-episode TV series.
2021 – Commissioned by Foresee Foundation to write La Diablesse, a Caribbean folklore.
2017-2021 – Authored Just being Funny, 4x syndicated weekly humor column.
2020 – Counting on Kendra (original half-hour sitcom pilot) advances to round two of Sundance’s Episodic Lab.
2020 – Humor podcast Scams, Swindles, and Schemes co-hosted with Devin Whilock and distributed by WhoHaHa Podcast Network.
2018 – Commissioned by Hidden In Plain Sight Productions to write Aluminum Coverage, 1 of 9 episodes for web series Pre-Existing.
2018 – IGNITE Caribbean’s 30 Under 30 Caribbean American Emerging Leaders award for work as cultural leadership.
2018 – Women in Comedy’s Awesome Chicago Female Comics to Follow recognition.
2016 – Panelist for SAIC’s Department of Writing and the Diversity’s ‘Poetic Politics: Genre as Resistance in Citizen’ panel.
2016 – New Perspectives Theater Company Women’s Work Short Play Lab, finalist.
2016 – Bathroom Confessionals (original half-hour sitcom pilot) advances to round two of Sundance’s Episodic Lab.
2016 – Bathroom Confessionals earns a semi-finalist spot in CaribbeanTales’ Caribbean Filmmaker Incubator.
2016 – NaNoSkeWriMo’s 7th most prolific writer.
2015 – Self-produced Oh, baby!, a short play anthology using a grant from Northwestern University.
2015 – Staged reading of Truth Tuesday, a full-length stage play during Northwestern University’s festival of new work.