EISA DAVIS wrote and starred in the acclaimed Angela’s Mixtape, directed by Liesl Tommy. After an almost entirely sold-out run this spring produced by New Georges, Angela’s Mixtape was remounted in the Hip-Hop Theater Festival October 15-17, and later named a best of 2009 by The New Yorker. Eisa was also a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Bulrusher, now published by Samuel French. Other plays include The History of Light (premiere, 2009 Contemporary American Theater Festival), Warriors Don’t Cry (Cornerstone Theater Company, Tennessee Women’s Theater Project), Hip Hop Anansi (Imagination Stage, published through Playscripts), Paper Armor, Umkovu, and Six Minutes, and Secretary of Shake (in Point of Revue). Eisa is a winner of the Helen Merrill Award, the Whitfield Cook Award, The Lippmann Family Award, and has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, and the Van Lier and Mellon Foundations. She is currently under commission from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Eisa’s writing has been published in American Theatre, The Source, To Be Real, Everything But The Burden, Step Into A World, Role Call, and Total Chaos. A Harvard graduate and Berkeley native, Eisa is a freshly minted alum of New Dramatists.