BIO

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I hold space for those silenced or erased.

I write to remember them.

I write to imagine otherwise.

D-Davis is a neurodivergent, genderfluid playwright who writes to implicate rather than console, leaving room to debate, to rage, to hope, and to imagine a world both softer and more ferocious than the one her characters entered. She was a finalist for Cry Havoc Theater Company and a semi-finalist for The Civilians R&D Group. Her play, The Midwives [A Meditation on Hope] was a semifinalist for the O’Neil Conference and the Terrence McNally Incubatorat Rattlestick, and her play Broken Thread was a semifinalist for Premiere Stages, Road Theatre, Bronx Creative Vision Award and a Workshop Theatre Intensive, and is published by Next Stage Press. She received an DQT American Woman Fellowship (Grrls Play Bass) and HB Studio Residency Fellowship (Complicity). Her most recent full length workshop productions are Broken Thread (Femme Collective) and Complicity (New Ohio);, and her one-act plays are Erasing Time (The Chain, short-listed SPF-16), Night Becomes Morning (Chain Theatre), Memorial Tree, (Columbia University, pub. in the Pitkin Review, 2022), and What’s What (Polaris Theater). D has work with PlayPenn, Primary Stages, New York Theater Workshop, Theatre East, Workshop Theatre, the Actors Studio, AMIOS, Howl Playwrights, Jose Rivera Writers Collective, 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 is the Co-Artistic Director of Eden Theater Company, with her daughter Cassandra Paras, and currently works as the Literary Associate for The Tent Theater Company. www.d-davis.com