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Russell Davis

resident playwright at People's Light & Theatre, Malvern, PA.

Russell Davis directed Tony Duncan who won the Individual Championships Competitions held at the 1994 International Jugglers' Association Convention.  He worked as the consulting writer with the juggler Michael Moschen in Michael Moschen in Motion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 1988 Next Wave Festival and at the Lincoln Center's SERIOUS FUN! Festival.  Recently, Russell has been working in collaboration with Jon Held, a juggler, to develop his solo performance piece Tales of Lunacy.

Russell’s plays include Appointment with a High Wire Lady, The Last Good Moment of Lily Baker, The Day of the Picnic, The Second Death of Priscilla, and Sally's Gone, She Left Her Name.  They have been produced at various theatres throughout the country, including People's Light & Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Center Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Yale Repertory, and Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival., O'Neill Center's National Playwrights Conference, and the New Harmony Project.

The Last Good Moment of Lily Baker won a Drama-logue Critics Award in California for best play in 1987.  He received a 2004 Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and and a playwright residency grant from the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group.  He has received two previous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, grants from the McKnight Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Tennessee Arts Commission, and New York State Council on the Arts.

His plays have been published by Broadway Play Publishing, Dramatists Play Service, Baker's Plays, and by Toneeluitgeverij Vink B.V. in the Netherlands.  Selections from plays have been published in Smith & Kraus' Great Scenes for Young Actors (Volume II), in The Best Women's Stage Monologues and The Best Men's Stage Monologues for 1991, 1992 and 2003, and in Penguin Books' 100 Monologues - An Audition Sourcebook from New Dramatists.

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