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Mushroom, a bilingual play Davis wrote about mushroom pickers around Kennett Square, PA earned several Barrymore nominations after its premiere in 2022. [21] Her play Bulrusher was produced at Berkeley Rep OCT 27–DEC 3, 2023. [22] In 2024, Eisa Davis's play Bulrusher was adapted into an opera by West Edge Opera in Berkeley, California. The ...
Davis is an Obie-winning actor, writer and singer-songwriter who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play “Bulrusher,” and wrote and starred in “Angela’s Mixtape ...
Since 2020, West Edge Opera has commissioned three new operas: Bulrusher, by composer Nathaniel Stookey with a libretto by Nathaniel Stookey and Eisa Davis, based on Davis' play Bulrusher. Dolores, about civil rights leader Dolores Huerta with music by Nicolas Lell Benavides and libretto by Marella Martin Koch’s. And finally, L’Autre Moi ...
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis explain their new album Warriors, if it's coming to Broadway, and more.
The two connected to discuss Mother Play, Paula Vogel's forthcoming Broadway show in which Jessica Lange stars. ... [2006 play] Bulrusher”—which I think is one of the most phenomenal plays I ...
Stookey is the son of Richard Phelps Stookey, an attorney and novelist, and Martha Milton Stookey, an actor, stage director, and teacher. Both parents came from musical families: Martha's father was an Army bugler and cornet player, and Richard's grandparents were church and barn-dance musicians whose descendants include Noel Paul Stookey of the folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary.
Davis penned the plays "Angela's Mixtape," "The History of Light" and "Bulrusher," the latter of which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama. She is also a television writer (Netflix's ...
Intimate Apparel, composed by Ricky Ian Gordon with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, was workshopped by OF:NW in 2016.The opera is based on Nottage's play by the same title, and surrounds the life of Esther, an African-American woman who moves to New York City in 1905 to become a seamstress. [5]