EISA DAVIS.
Award-winning actor, writer, singer-songwriter.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
Eisa Davis is a performer, composer, and writer. A recipient of a USA Artists Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, an AUDELCO, an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Performance and the Herb Alpert Award in Theater, Eisa was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Bulrusher.
Along with other stageworks such as Angela's Mixtape, The Essentialisn't, ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||, and the score for Devil In A Blue Dress: The Musical, she has written for television, recorded two albums of original music, Something Else and Tinctures, and directed a short film, Remembrance. Notable performance work includes Relay, Ex-Husbands, Kindred, Mare of Easttown, The Wire, Kings, the musical of The Secret Life of Bees, and Passing Strange.
An alumna of New Dramatists and a Cave Canem fellow, Eisa co-created the Warriors concept album with Lin-Manuel Miranda. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
"There’s the performance we do on a stage, and then there’s the performance we do in life. So this question of, can you be Black and not perform, is both about life and about the stage. It’s also a very personal question of : Can I simply be who I am, naturally, without feeling that that is of lesser value?"
Artist Website.
Eisa Davis fills every corner of the room
OPEN FACED
and
OPEN HEARTED.
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CREDITS: Headshot by Zayira Ray; Video: Angela’s MixTape, dir Liesl Tommy, Ohio Theater, 2009, Kim Brockington, Denise Burse, Eisa Davis, Ayesha Ngaujah, Linda Powell; Bulrusher photo by Lawrence E Moten III; Mushroom photos by Mark Garvin: Janice Amaya, Angel Sigala, Michael G. Martinez; Additional Photos from Bulrusher, Hip Hop Anansi, and The History of Light, courtesy of artist.