Angela J. Davis’s plays include The Spanish Prayer Book (The Road Theatre Company, 2019-20 season; L.A. Times Best Bet), AGATHE (2023 Season – Sohaya Visions (London), New American Voices Award – The Landing Theatre, and Jane Chambers Award Top-4 Finalist), Clara and Serra and The Talking Bear (commissioned by The Antaeus Theatre Company for its 2020-21 season), and Griswold (recipient of the A is For Playwriting Prize, 2022 FutureFest and American Dreaming New Works Festival Official Selection; recently showcased in New York City, directed by Tatiana Pandiani with Annette Bening, Sean Carvajal, and Emma Ramos), among other works.
Her numerous playwriting honors include: Playhouse Creatures (NYC) Rodriguez Award, Henley Rose Award, A is for Playwriting Award, 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.
Recent work presented/forthcoming at Playhouse Creatures (NYC), Sohaya Visions (London), Playhouse on the Square, 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 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.