Biography
Eisa Davis was born on 5 May 1971 and grew up in Berkeley, California. She studied at Harvard University and earned a Master of Fine Arts in acting and playwriting at the Actors Studio Drama School of The New School. Her play Bulrusher premiered in New York in 2006 and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In Angela's Mixtape (2009) she explored her own background; the activist Angela Davis is her aunt. As an actor she has appeared in Passing Strange, in Preludes at Lincoln Center and in the television series The Wire and Mare of Easttown. With Lin-Manuel Miranda she wrote Warriors, released as a concept album in 2024 and opening on Broadway in 2027.
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