ALRIC DAVIS

Alric Davis is driven by the age-old tradition of preserving history through storytelling. Since 2013, he serves as the Founding Artistic Director of The Sankofa Collective. He holds a B.F.A. from Howard University with a concentration in Musical Theatre and Playwriting. He is also a freelance performer, director, theatre critic, acting coach and adjunct instructor. Some of his favorite acting credits are A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Color Purple, Anything Goes, Photograph 51, Phenomenal Woman: Maya Angelou, Trouble in Mind. Directing credits include The Color Purple, The Bodyguard, Next to Normal, Miss Evers Boys, Burden of Proof and The Wiz (2019 – Best Direction of a Musical winner). His original play Different, Damaged, Damned won the Alley Theatre’s Houston Young Playwrights Exchange scholarship in 2013. The work also received Best of Fest at the 2016 D.C. Capitol Fringe Festival and his play about the Black Panther Party, Queen Peaches, won the Inaugural Black Box Theatre Festival at The Tank in New York. His original work Reap The Reparations was a commissioned work in 2020 for Theatre Alliance in D.C., his work Remember the Resurrection was commissioned by The First Metropolitan Church in 2024. His ten-minute play Buffalo Woman won the 2024 Fade to Black 10-Min Play Festival in 2024 and the one act play Bashful and the Noize won the 2021Page to Stage Festival for the Kennedy Center in D.C.