Eisa Davis & Jillian Walker

Eisa Davis is a writer, composer, and performer. A recipient of a USA Artists Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, an AUDELCO, an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Performance, and the Herb Alpert Award in Theater, Eisa was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Bulrusher. Along with her thirteen full-length stageworks, she has written for television, recorded two albums of original music, Something Else and Tinctures, and directed a short film, Remembrance. Notable performance work includes Kindred, Mare of Easttown, The Wire, Kings, The Essentialisn’t, the musical of The Secret Life of Bees, and Passing Strange. An alumnus of New Dramatists, Eisa has received residencies, awards, and fellowships from Sundance Theater Lab, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Helen Merrill Foundation, the Van Lier and Mellon Foundations, and Cave Canem. Eisa lives in Brooklyn, NY.Jillian Walker is a multidimensional artist, teacher, and ancestral guide. She is the creator of the critically-acclaimed, SKiNFoLK: An American Show, (NYT Critics Pick, Kilroys List), Sarah’s Salt, and the upcoming film, BLK GRK (or, hiding in plain sight). Jillian is a 2020 Lilly Award recipient and seeks to inspire the culture ever-more toward love and liberation in her time-bending in(ter)dependent publication, The Free List. Jillian currently lives, works, and heals in New York.