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EISA DAVIS |
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Literary Agent: Bret Adams Ltd |
Eisa Davis is a writer and performer whose plays include Bulrusher (Urban Stages, Shotgun Players fall 2007), Warriors Don't Cry (Cornerstone Theater), Hip Hop Anansi(Imagination Stage), Angela's Mixtape, Paper Armor, Six Minutes, and Umkovu.She has also received development support from the Hip Hop Theater Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage and Film, the New Group, Soho Rep, the Flea, Cleveland Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Hartford Stage, the Cherry Lane, Seattle Rep, Yale University, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Schomburg Center for Black Research, the Women's Project, and Urban Stages. Honors include the Helen Merrill Award, the John Lippmann New Frontier Award, fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, the Van Lier and Mellon Foundations, and commissions from Geva Theatre/NYSCA and Imagination Stage. Her essays on hip hop theatre have appeared in American Theatre and The Source. As an actor, she has starred in productions in New York and at regional theatres around the country. Film work includes Robot Stories, Apparition of the Eternal Church, Brass Tacks, Confess, and The Architect. She has performed her original songs at Joe's Pub, BAMCafe, Tonic, the Zipper, Makor, the Jazz Gallery, and on the Showtime series Soul Food. A graduate of Harvard and the Actors Studio Drama School, Ms. Davis is a native of Berkeley, California.
Plays by Eisa Davis
Angela's Mixtape | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2003 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74958 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Eisa's aunt is the activist Angela Davis and the play explores someone growing up in a family with a internationally famous person. Using the rhythms of music and memory, in Angela's Mixtape Eisa Davis tells the story of a radical upbringing on the dividing line between Oakland and Berkeley, California-in a family that includes her aunt, professor and activist Angela Davis. Time shifts between the '70s, '80s, and '90s as smoothly as a DJ fading from song to song. Each track, each memory, has a built-in switch to the next, for theatrical momentum that keeps on building. Crossing cultural borders as it scratches through time, the play moves from Angela's hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, to the House of Detention where she was once held prisoner, to the playgrounds of Eisa's Bay Area public schools, the dorm rooms of the Ivy League and the shores of Senegal. The music crosses styles and decades, but it's hip-hop and a b-girl stance that keeps the piece bouncing in the present. It's just your average black macrobiotic revolutionary dancing family. | |||||
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Bulrusher | ||
| 1st Produced: | Urban Stages, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, Inc - New York (2009) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-66313-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48098 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| In 1955 Boonville, California, a multi-racial abandoned baby girl (Bulrusher) is found floating in a basket on the river. Growing up in an isolated predominately white town with its own homespun language, Bulrusher only questions her origins and investigates her identity when prompted by the arrival of a stranger. In a town where the unusual is normal (a brothel run by an aloof madam, a school run by a silent teacher), Bulrusher is still an outcast due to her painfully accurate clairvoyance | |||||
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Hip Hop Anasi | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74960 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 actors | |||||
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Synopsis: | Anasi wants the Golden Fly Pie Award and will do anything to get it. | |||||
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History of Light, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74961 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A young black woman who grew up not knowing her father is visited by his white girlfriend which puts her relationship with a white man into perspective. | |||||
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Paper Armor | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74962 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston began collaborating on a play but it destroyed their relationship. A young man hopes their now 97 year old stenographer can shed dome light on the matter. | |||||
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Point of Revue | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis, MN, United States) | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61239 | |||
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Genre: | 90-115 min Dramatic/Comedic vaudeville | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 6 males, 6 females, 3 either (12-60 actors possible: 6-40 males, 6-20 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | A composite shot of African America. . .with attitude. Through a riveting series of short plays and songs, this vaudeville defies stereotype as it explores a myriad of topics and places, from Northern Uganda to the American South, HIV to Condoleeza Rice. Swinging from the serious to the absurd, there's plenty to laugh and cry about in this powerful piece. | |||||
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Six Minutes | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74963 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | The relationship between two black critics becomes dangerous as they start taking everything literarily. | |||||
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Umkovu | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74964 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A rapper has signed for a record label that boosts its sales by murdering its artists. | |||||
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Warriors Don't Cry | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74965 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | In 1957 Melba Pattillo Beals apllied to go to an all white college. | |||||
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