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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.
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Sep 12, 2022 · Mushroom runs September 14 through October 16 on the Steinbright Stage. Single tickets are $47, including fees. To purchase, call 610.644.3500 or visit peopleslight.org. People's Light is located ...
Sep 18, 2020 · Watch Bulrusher below written and directed by Eisa Davis through September 20, starring Edmund Donovan, Sydney Elisabeth, André Holland, Tanis Parenteau, Corey Stoll. Kara Young It feels like a folktale: In a small town called Boonville, whose townsfolk have their own language, an outcast named Bulrusher, who was abandoned as an infant in a ...
Sep 13, 2014 · Back then, the eponymous heroine of Eisa Davis‘ Bulrusher (played by a remarkable Bianca Lemaire) leads a hardscrabble yet idyllic rural existence around the village of Boonville, California, a ...
Award-winning writer, performer, and composer Eisa Davis was born and raised in California’s Bay Area. A niece of Angela Davis and the daughter of civil rights lawyer Fania Davis, she came of age in a rich political, creative, and intellectual milieu. She earned her B.A. at Harvard and a dual M.F.A. in acting and playwriting at the Actors Studio.
2012. Smash ( 2 episodes) as Abigail. 2011. Hart of Dixie ( 10 episodes) as Addy Pickett. 2010. Welcome to the Rileys as Vivian. 2009. Passing Strange as Mother. 2007.
