Diane Davis
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NYC/Bronx, NY
An NYC playwright.
Biography

Diane Davis is an NYC playwright Writer in Resident at Theater East, a member of the Actors Studio Playwright and Directors Unit (PDU, and the Eden Theater Company PlayLab Facilitator. Her plays have been developed or produced by the New Ohio Theatre, Eden Theater Company (ETC), New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), Primary Stages, AMIOS, the Barrow Group, Dramatist Guild, HB Studios, Goddard College and Columbia University. Her full-length play Complicity (New Ohio) received an HB Studio Residency Award for development. Diane’s most recent one act plays include The Memorial Tree and Girls Play Bass (Columbia University) What's What and The Night Becomes Morning both with staged readings in New York City. She worked for two years with AMIOS Shotz, writing several ten-minute plays including Unspoken Rules, On the Line, and Dueling Technicians. Diane also produced and directed The Room Series (Eden Theater Company) – with each room as the theme for an evening of three short plays (the Bedroom, Livingroom, Bathroom and Kitchen – on zoom throughout the quarantine, with proceeds going to the Equal Justice Initiative. Prior to quarantine, she produced Scrambled Porn (Flea Theater), FlipSide (Flea Theater). She studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Diane’s was a Board of Director for the Amoralists Theater Company, and the League of Professional Theatre Women. She earned a BA in theater from Bennington College, a master’s degree in history from CUNY, and is enrolled at Columbia University in the MFA 2025 Playwriting Cohort. 

Plays

Once a victim of a Hollywood predator, Tig Kennedy turns the tables, and seeks justice against the system that aided and abetted the perpetrator. In trying to reclaim her life, Tig challenges the power and complicity of rules in the Hollywood game, and how women work within those rules.

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A young girl and her sister, affected by the untimely death of their mother, memoiralize her passing.

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by Diane Davis and Amanda Enzo

Professor NWA, an art history professior, leads her class in a lesson on the history of art that takes a turn into the revolution. 

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The power of family is challenged by two sisters, Perry and Vivian, who try to maintain a meaningful role in their mother Sophie's life and finances. Staying Together is a play about claiming one’s place in the family to keep it together.

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Successes

HB Studio Residency (Summer 2019) Play Development and Staged Reading