Email: davisn@bu.edu

NATHAN ALAN DAVIS’s plays include Nat Turner in Jerusalem (New York Theatre Workshop; Stavis Playwright Award), Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea (NNPN Rolling World Premiere; Steinberg/ATCA New Play Citation), and The Wind and the Breeze (Cygnet Theatre; Blue Ink Award, Lorraine Hansberry Award).  

Three of his plays will receive world premieres in 2023: The High Ground (Arena Stage), Eternal Life Part 1 (Wilma Theatre) and Origin Story (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). In recognition of his body of work, Nathan has received a Windham-Campbell Prize (2021), a Steinberg Playwright Award (2020), and a Whiting Award in Drama (2018). His commissions include Seattle Rep, Audible, True Love Productions, and BMG Music. He is a Playwrights’ Center Venturous Fellow, a Lecturer in Theater and Berlind Playwright-in-Residence at Princeton University, and serves on the faculty of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Also a screenwriter, he has worked on TV and feature projects for HBO Max, Netflix, AMC, and Paramount. He holds a BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an MFA from Indiana University Bloomington, and is a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard.

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