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Born May 5, 1971 in Berkeley, California, USA. Eisa Davis is an award-winning actor, writer, and singer-songwriter working on stage and screen. She is known for her roles as Cynthia Driscoll on House of Cards (2015-16), and as Rae, Bubbles' sister on The Wire (2003, 2008). She also played Irma in the acclaimed rock musical Passing Strange (2009 ...
Eisa Davis. 1971— Playwright, actor. The playwright Eisa Davis was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for drama for Bulrusher, her tale of a black woman living in an all-white California community in the 1950s. Davis has also acted in film, television, and on stage, and in 2008 she appeared in the acclaimed Broadway musical Passing Strange.
Eisa Davis is a writer, composer, and performer. A recipient of a Creative Capital Award, an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Performance, the Herb Alpert Award in Theater, and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Bulrusher. Davis wrote and starred in the stage memoir Angela’s Mixtape. Other works include Paper Armor, Umkovu, Hip Hop Anansi ...
Bulrusher. Read digital program. BY EISA DAVIS. DIRECTED BY NICOLE A. WATSON. A CO-PRODUCTION WITH MCCARTER THEATRE CENTER. PEET’S THEATRE. OCT 27–DEC 3, 2023. Glitters like Boonville’s Navarro River….The script devises an idiom so resplendent, so discerning, that it induces chills and shudders…. [The] cast members buff the text to a ...
Jan 9, 2024 · Paperback – January 9, 2024. Trained in classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hip hop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis’s plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis of music alongside radical change. In Angela's Mixtape, time shifts like a mixtape, and like a mixtape ...
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Oct 20, 2023 · The first thing the audience hears at the beginning of Eisa Davis' play “Bulrusher” is the title character, a mixed-race teenage girl in Northern California in 1955, declaiming a poem about her own beginnings. “I float in a basket toward the Pacific, hands blue as huckleberries,” she intones. A few lines later, she explains.
Apr 9, 2009 · That Angela Davis, the scholar and activist jailed for more than a year before being acquitted of involvement in a violent attempt to free a prisoner, is Angela Eisa Davis’s aunt, and the ...
