D-DAVIS
is a playwright living in NYC and the Artistic Director at Eden Theater Company. Her most recent productions are Broken Thread (Femme Collective) and Complicity (New Ohio), and her one-act plays Night Becomes Morning (Chain Theatre), Memorial Tree, (Columbia University), and What’s What (Polaris Theater). She was a semifinalist for Premiere Stages Play Festival and Bronx Creative Vision Award (Broken Thread), and awarded a Working Theatre Residency (Broken Thread), American Woman Fellowship (Grrls Play Bass) and HB Studio Residency Fellowship (Complicity). Her work has been developed and/or produced at New Ohio, Primary Stages, New York Theatre Workshop, Howl Playwrights, AMIOS, Goddard College, and Columbia University. She studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and earned a BA in theater from Bennington College. She is a published academic with an MA in history from CUNY and MFA in playwriting from Columbia University, and granted two NEH research fellowships (Feminism and Philosophy). She is a member of the Dramatist Guild, the Actors Studio Playwright and Director’s Unit, HOWL Playwrights, Theatre East; and is the Literary Associate for The Tent Theater Company. www.edentheater.org and www.d-davis.com