the show was just the way we like it. yummy and nutritious. here’s a taste.
plays
video up from performance at Symphony Space!
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012coming to Symphony Space March 1
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012I’m writing a musical! or a musicale. or something with music and words and singing in it. not sure yet. but you can come see where I’ve gotten so far on March 1st at Symphony Space. please do. I need you there.
wrapping up 2011
Saturday, December 31st, 2011clips from Angela’s Mixtape
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011because you missed it, or you miss it, like me.
courtesy of Actors Equity Association. featuring Kim Brockington, Denise Burse, Eisa Davis, Ayesha Ngaujah, and Linda Powell, directed by Liesl Tommy. co-produced by Hip Hop Theater Festival and New Georges.
a song from the Active Ingredients medicine show
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011snuck back into the studio for a few minutes to lay this brief, unadorned song down. I wrote it for our medicine show with Third Root and the Foundry–lyrics inspired by a crucial practice and set of wisdoms in Tibetan Buddhism. here’s the first take. enjoy!
Eisa Davis - I Knowcollaboration with the FOUNDRY / THIRD ROOT April 14 and 16
Monday, April 11th, 2011The Ruby Prize.
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named in honor of Ruby Bridges, one of the first African Americans to integrate public schools in New Orleans, the Ruby honors a woman playwright of color with $10,000 and development of a new work through Southern Rep Theatre. this was the first year the prize was given out and yours truly received it, along with finalists Katori Hall, Jocelyn Bioh, Tanya Saracho, and Kimber Lee. the play, RAMP, was commissioned by American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and has been supported by New York Stage and Film, LAByrinth Theater Company, and The Hip Hop Theater Festival. rumor has it we’ll have a workshop in the spring at New Dramatists–and as the play is in its nascent stages, I need it badly. feeling quite grateful for this unexpected distinction.
SUMMERTIME!
Monday, June 28th, 2010thanks to everyone who came out to hear the music at Joe’s Pub Memorial Day weekend. don’t forget to buy a copy of SOMETHING ELSE if you don’t have one and sign up / check in here for info on the next show, play, event! (photos below by Nick Suttle and Kevin Yatarola.)
ANGELA’S MIXTAPE named a Best of 2009 by The New Yorker!
Thursday, December 31st, 2009yes it was! here’s the link. also got a nod in the Village Voice’s column for contributing to best theater of the decade. nice, right?
“On this mixtape, style will dictate, we bounce back and forth in time…”
Using the rhythms of music and memory, Eisa 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.
The music crosses styles and decades, but it’s hip-hop and a b-girl stance that keeps the piece bouncing in the present.
The History of Light…
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009…premiered at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in July, directed by Liesl Tommy. David Emerson Toney, Lee Roy Rogers, Jason Denuszek and Amelia Workman rounded out the cast (the latter two in the image below).
