D-Davis is a neurodivergent playwright who creates from the body, the margins, and the fault lines: places where survival demands both tenderness and rebellion. Her plays grow out of the marrow of her lived life, as a daughter, sister, musician, mother, and survivor, who’s neurodivergence moves through illness, healing, and ongoing change. She was a finalist for Cry Havoc. Her play, A Meditation on Hope was a semifinalist for the O’Neil Conference and the Terrance McNalley Incubator, and her Broken Thread was a semifinalist for Premiere Stages, Road Theatre, Bronx Creative Vision Award and a Workshop Theatre Intensive. She received an DQT American Woman Fellowship (Grrls Play Bass) and HB Studio Residency Fellowship (Complicity). Her most recent productions are Broken Thread (Femme Collective), and Complicity (New Ohio), and one-act plays Erasing Time, short-listed SPF-16, Night Becomes Morning (Chain Theatre), Memorial Tree, (Columbia University, pub. Pitkin Review), and What’s What (Polaris Theater). Other work has been developed or produced by Primary Stages, the Actors Studio, New York Theater Workshop, Eden Theater Company, AMIOS – Project 42, Theatre East, Workshop Theatre, Howl Playwrights, Goddard College and Columbia University. She earned a BA in Theater at Bennington College, an MA in History at CUNY, granted two NEH research fellowships (Feminism and Philosophy), and earned an MFA in playwriting at Columbia University. She currently works as the Literary Associate for The Tent Theater Company. www.d-davis.com
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