News & Upcoming

  • Griswold, Angela’s newest full-length play (inspired by the overlooked story behind establishment of the Griswold v. Connecticut landmark Supreme Court case), will be showcased in NYC with Annette Bening and Sean Carvjal, directed by Tatiana Pandiani.  Griswold is the First-Place Winner of the A is For Playwriting Prize (juried by Tony Award -winning director David Cromer, acclaimed writer Lindy West and others affiliated with Broadway Works for Women), Winner of the 2022 Playhouse Creatures (NYC) New Works Celebration, as well as an official selection for the 2022 FutureFest Festival of New American Plays, one of three new plays selected for the 2022 American Dreaming New Works Festival, and an official selection for the 2022 National Women’s Theatre Festival.  Griswold was also named a finalist for the 2021 Arts & Letters Drama Prize, an international award administered by editors of the Arts & Letters  journal.

    The Spanish Prayer Book (Angela’s award-winning drama inspired by the human impact of cultural treasures dispersed during wartime; world premiere at The Road Theatre Company, 2019-20; dir. Lee Sankowich and an L.A. Times Best Bet: “a literate mediation on the boundaries of art and social responsibility”; also praised by former L.A. Weekly Lead Theatre Critic Steven Leigh Morris as  a descendant of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia . . . a beautiful, intricate and important new play” ) is now part of the JTS Opening Season, the inaugural season (2022) of cultural offerings in the JTSA’s new, state-of-the-art performing arts space in Manhattan.  Susan Einhorn directs a showcase of veteran actors (casting director Judy Henderson).

  • AGATHE will be staged at Pinter Studio in London in 2023 (Sohaya Visions, producer; Mukul Ahmed director).  Previously, AGATHE was an official selection (and recipient of a Special Commendation) for the London-based 2022 Sohaya Visions Festival (director Mukul Ahmed); AGATHE is also the Winner of the  2021 SETC Getchell Award,  the Landing Theatre New American Voices Award,  a Jane Chambers Award Top-four Finalist and Honoree, and 2021 Woodward/Newman Drama Award (top 12 from a field of over 1,000 new scripts and productions) among other honors.

  • Angela’s play, Clara and Serra and The Talking Bear, originally commissioned by the Antaeus Theatre Company,  is now available as a radio play on all major podcast platforms as well as the Antaeus website.

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  • Read more about Antaeus’s special commission of professionally produced radio plays.

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  • Angela’s newest short play, Medusa Does a Re-Do is an official selection for both The Road Theatre Company 2021 Summer Playwrights Festival and the 2021 New York-based O.C. Arts International Ten-Minute PlayFest.

  • Angela has been awarded the 2022 Playhouse Creatures Dr. R.J. Rodriguez Award.

  • Playhouse on the Square has named AGATHE one of six official selections for its New Works at The Works series.

  • AGATHE is an official selection for the Landing Theatre’s 2020 New American Voices Award and The Road Theatre Company’s 2020 Summer Playwrights Festival.

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  • An international jury has selected Hong Kong Date Night the winning best new comedy short for the Ojai Valley Theatre Artists Ensemble Short Play Awards.

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  • Playfest Santa Barbara selected Angela its 2020 Honoree Playwright.

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  • Mata H. has been named in the top five for the Segora International Playwriting Awards and one of three winning plays for the Frostburg Art Center New Play Series.

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  • Read Stageraw Founder, and former Pulitzer Prize Jury Chair, Steven Leigh Morris’s review of The Spanish Prayer Book.

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  • Angela’s play Hong Kong Date Night has been named an official selection for the Smith and Kraus Anthology of Best One-Act Plays. Available in late 2021.

Angela J. Davis Playwright

is the author of The Spanish Prayer Book (The Road Theatre Company, 2019-20 season; L.A. Times Best Bet),  AGATHE (2020 New American Voices Award – The Landing Theatre)  Clara and Serra and The Talking Bear (commissioned by Antaeus Theatre Company), and Griswold (2022 Official Selection for FutureFest, the Amerian Dreaming New Works Festival, and the National Women’s Theatre Festival), among other plays.

Recipient of the Marsha A. Croyle Award for Achievement in Playwriting, the SETC Getchell Award for Outstanding New Play, the Playhouse Creatures Emerging Playwright Celebration Award, the A is For Playwriting Award, and named the 2020 Honoree Playwright by the Santa Barbara-based Playfest of New American Plays, a three-time Eugene O’Neill semi-finalist (2017, 2018, 2020), 2021 Woodward/Newman Award Finalist, 2021 Jane Chambers Award Finalist and Honoree, and one of the top 21 (from a field of over twelve hundred) for the Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle Hart New Play Initiative, her work has recently been presented and/or is upcoming at Playhouse on the Square, The Landing Theatre, Playhouse Creatures, Playground Theatre, Chameleon Theatre Circle, The Road Theatre Company, The Blank Theatre, and elsewhere.

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