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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,...
Based on the play by Eisa Davis Bulrusher is the first complete length opera to be commissioned and developed by West Edge Opera. Bulrusher was initially commissioned in 2020.
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Eisa Davis is a writer, composer and actress working on stage and screen. A recipient of the 2020 Creative Capital Award, a Herb Alpert Awardee in Theater and an Obie winner for Sustained Excellence in Performance, Eisa was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her p ...
BULRUSHER. Full length play | Drama | 3M, 3F. In 1955, in the redwood country north of San Francisco, a multiracial girl grows up in a predominantly white town whose residents pepper their speech with the historical dialect of Boontling.
Oct 24, 2023 · For Eisa Davis, to have her play “Bulrusher” come to Berkeley Repertory Theatre is like coming home. Davis is a Berkeley native and Berkeley High alum who now lives in Brooklyn. Her mother is...
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.
Berkeley native Eisa Davis’ lyrical coming-of-age story follows a multiracial girl found as an infant floating in a basket on the Navarro River in Mendocino County. It’s 1955, and Bulrusher is 18 and restless, with a gift for clairvoyance that makes her feel like a stranger even amongst the eccentric, dialect speaking folks of her ...
