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Eisa Davis (born May 5, 1971) is an American playwright, actress and singer-songwriter. She is most commonly known for her work as a playwright, writing shows such as Bulrusher and Angela's Mixtape as well as through her acting work, wherein she won an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Performance.
- May 5, 1971 (age 52)
- Angela Davis (aunt)
- Playwright, actress, singer-songwriter
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), captured on film by Spike Lee.
- May 5, 1971
ABOUT. EISA DAVIS is an award-winning actor, writer, and singer-songwriter working on stage and screen. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Bulrusher, and wrote and starred in Angela’s Mixtape, named a best of the year by The New Yorker.
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), captured on film by Spike Lee.
- January 1, 1
- 1.70 m
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Graduated from Harvard
- Used Archaic Dialect
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Davis emerged as artistically gifted at an early age. She began piano lessons at the age of six, took dance classes, sang in the church choir, and wrote plays, which she staged for her family and neighbors. At the age of nine, she made her actual stage debut at a Communist Party event, delivering a spoken-word piece taken from her aunt's 1974 memoi...
Davis's Bulrusher was first produced at Urban Stages, an off-Broadway venue, in March of 2006. It was not a musical, but it did feature some songs she had written for it, along with poetry. Its title character is an orphaned child who, like the biblical patriarch Moses, was plucked from the river, where she had been abandoned in a basket. Thus, Bul...
Born Angela Eisa Davis on May 5, 1971, in Berkeley, CA; daughter of Fania Davis (a civil right lawyer). Education: Harvard University, BA (magna cum laude), 1992; Actors Studio, New School for Social Research, MFA. Career:Film, television, and onstage actor, singer, and playwright; New Dramatists, Van Lier Fellowship, 2001-02, and resident playwrig...
Plays
Bulrusher, 2006. Hip Hop Anansi, 2006. Warriors Don't Cry, 2007. Angela's Mixtape, 2008. Passing Strange, 2008.
Films
Box Suite, 1997. Mourning Glory, 2001. Brass Tacks, 2002. Robot Stories, 2003. Confess, 2005. The Architect, 2006. Happenstance, 2007.
Television
Soul Food, 2001-02. The Wire, 2008.
Periodicals
American Theatre, February 2008, p. 44; March 8, 2008, p. B7. New York Times, January 6, 1971, p. 17; February 29, 2008, p. E1. San Jose Mercury News, September 27, 2007. —Carol Brennan
Eisa Davis – Eisa Davis is an award-winning actor, writer, and singer-songwriter working on stage and screen. EISA DAVIS.
May 10, 2016 · She is a writer for Netflix's "She's Gotta Have It" and Cirque du Soleil's Crystal. Her albums include Something Else. She has received an Obie for Sustained Excellence and she was a Pulitzer Prize...
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