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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 playBulrusher, and wrote and starred inAngela's Mixtape, and is creating a limited series based on the memoir by Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine. Eisa is a 2020 Creative Capital recipient. She was awarded the prestigious Herb Alpert Award in Theatre, and was a resident playwright at New Dramatists, where she won the Helen Merrill Award and the Whitfield Cook Award, among others. She has received fellowships from Sundance, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, and the Doris Duke, Van Lier and Mellon Foundations. As an actor, she is an Obie Award winner for Sustained Excellence in Performance. Eisa's recent work includes a microplay by Lynn Nottage in the virtual series Theatre For One, the role of June in the musical adaptation ofThe Secret Life of Bees(AUDELCO award, Lortel nomination),Kingsat the Public (Drama League nomination), the 2017 Shakespeare in the Park production ofJulius Caesar, andPreludescreated by Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin, for which she received her second Lucille Lortel nomination. Other theatre performances includeAntigone in Fergusonat Yale Rep (also composer and music director), and the acclaimed Broadway rock musicalPassing Strange, captured on film by Spike Lee. Current television work includesBetty, Bluff City Law,God Friended Me,Rise, Condi Rice onThe Looming Tower, andSuccession.
"""A revealing portrait of a young artist (born in 1970, while her aunt is in prison) struggling to find herself, while growing up in the shadow of three enormously strong, brilliant, and successful black women steeped in radical sixties politics."" * New Yorker on Angela's Mixtape * ""[An] appropriately turbulent and quite funny show about the forces that influence the forging of identity....the strange juxtaposition of the prosaic trials of adolescence and the urgent radicalism of the family politics is also what gives the show its own distinctive identity."" * New York Times on Angela's Mixtape *"
