Angela J. Davis’s plays include the multi-award winning AGATHE (2024 World Premiere – The Playground Theatre – London), Griswold (Bridge Street Theatre 2024-25 season; showcased in NYC with Annette Bening in the title role and in London with Martha Plimpton), The Spanish Prayer Book (The Road Theatre Company, 2019-20 Season and World Premiere; L.A. Times Best Bet),  and Clara and Serra and The Talking Bear (commissioned and produced for audio theatre by The Antaeus Theatre Company for its 2020-21 season), among other plays.

Her numerous playwriting honors include: Playhouse Creatures (NYC) Emerging Playwrights Celebration Winner (twice), Henley Rose Award, A is for Playwriting Award (juried by Broadway veterans and affiliated with Broadway Works for Women), Marsha A. Croyle Award for Achievement in Playwriting, Honorary Playwright In Residence for the Santa Barbara-based PlayFest of New American Plays, Landing Theatre New American Voices Award, Jane Chambers Award Top-4 Finalist and Honoree; top 21 (from a field of over twelve hundred) for the Moss Hart and Kitty Carlisle Hart New Play Initiative, top 12 (from a field of over twelve hundred) for the Woodward-New Playwriting Award, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist (four times).

Recent work presented/forthcoming at Playhouse Creatures (NYC), The Playground Theatre (London), Playhouse on the Square, Bridge Street Theatre, The Landing Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Company, Chameleon Theatre Circle, HRC Showcase, The Road Theatre Company, The Blank Theatre, Itinerant Theatre Company, Theatre In the Raw (Vancouver), Tempest Productions, The Dayton Playhouse, and elsewhere.

Angela’s poetry and prose pieces appear in numerous national publications, including a University of Iowa Press anthology.  Her plays have been included in three editions of the Smith and Kraus “Best of” anthologies.

A Pushcart Prize nominee and one of sixteen writers selected as honorary Literary Hosts for the 2018 PEN America LitFest, Angela holds degrees from Stanford and UCLA and is a member of Dramatists Guild of America, PEN America, and the Antaeus Theatre Company Playwrights Lab.