Russell Davis
Lecturer in religion & literature
Russell Davis's plays have been produced at various theatres throughout the country. He was a 2008-10 recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and resident playwright at People's Light & Theatre Company for the Theatre Residency Program of the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group. He has received grants and fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, McKnight Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Tennessee Arts Commission, as well as two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is also a juggler. He directed Tony Duncan who won the juggling championships at the 1994 International Jugglers' Association Convention, and worked 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 1990. He has been a juggling/unicycling instructor for the Big Apple Circus' circus arts program in Harlem. He was one of four jugglers featured in "The Best Jugglers You've Never Heard Of," a recent cover story of JUGGLE magazine published by the International Jugglers' Association. He is currently working on The Evening & Morning Tiger, a theatre piece with an eight person ensemble of actors and circus artists, commissioned by People's Light & Theatre and Longwood Botanical Gardens. BA, Hobart College.