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EISA’s album of original music Something Else is available on CDBaby and iTunes. It is also distributed by Sandfish Records in Japan. Please purchase a copy if you don’t have one–it’s a good companion to have near.

She has performed at venues including Joe’s Pub, BAMCafé, Symphony Space, the Whitney Museum, the Jazz Gallery, Makor, Tonic, CB’s Gallery, the Duncan Theatre in West Palm Beach, and the Temple Bar in Santa Monica.

I’ll be returning to Joe’s Pub May 28th for a set with spanking new tunes. Come by!

The New York Times review

“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.

why haven’t I posted this until now. insane. it’s sort of like how a fish swimming in water doesn’t notice the water, I guess….after an unbelievably reviewed premiere (100% on Rotten Tomatoes!) and run at the IFC Center in New York and the Shattuck and Embarcadero in the Bay Area, Spike Lee’s film of Annie Dorsen’s and Stew’s and Heidi’s Passing Strange is finally coming out on DVD January 12, 2010!  it’ll be shown on PBS then too. tell the Academy to give us an Oscar even though we aren’t eligible!

www.passingstrangethemovie.com.

did I mention the movie is hella good?

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.

buy BULRUSHER