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Aug 23, 2023 · Casting and creative team information have been revealed for the McCarter Theatre Center production of Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis' Bulrusher. The play will run at the Princeton, New Jersey ...
Sep 12, 2022 · By: Chloe Rabinowitz Sep. 12, 2022. People's Light is presenting the world premiere of Mushroom, an original play from Pulitzer Prize finalist and Mare of Easttown cast member Eisa Davis. In ...
May 6, 2005 · Angela Davis is a key character in "Angela's Mixtape," as is Eisa's mother, Fania Davis (Angela's sister). Actresses portray Fania and Angela, while Eisa's cousin Cecilie Davis plays herself. At ...
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.
With language the star forward in her plays, and music central to her practice, Davis’ world is a rhythmic zone that celebrates voice and orality. Lyricism, elocution and slang, speech high and low, florid flights and everyday bluntness, all part of her juju. Carving out imaginative territories, Davis asks questions: what is family?
Eisa Davis' gleaming marriage of poetry and myth... has a big heart and a wide-open soul. Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune Filled with passion and peppered with live music and gentle humor, this Pulitzer Prize finalist transports us to the predominantly white town of Boonville, nestled in the majestic Redwoods of 1955 California.
Nov 6, 2023 · Berkeley Rep’s ‘Bulrusher,’ set in 1950s Booneville, is an evocative but somewhat jumbled folk tale. Eisa Davis’ Pulitzer-winning play, written partly in the dying Boontling dialect of Anderson Valley, follows an 18-year-old girl with the power to tell fortunes though a town full of secrets. by Emily S. Mendel Nov. 6, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
