Russell Davis' plays include THE LAST GOOD MOMENT OF LILY BAKER, APPOINTMENT WITH A HIGH WIRE LADY, and SALLY'S GONE, SHE LEFT HER NAME. They have been produced at various theatres, including People's Light & Theatre Company, Long Wharf, Center Stage, St. Louis Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Yale Repertory. They have also been presented at Mark Taper Forum's New Work Festival, New Harmony Project, Sundance Playwrights Lab. and the O'Neill Center's National Playwrights Conference. He was resident playwright at People's Light for the Theatre Residency Program of the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group. He has received two earlier fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and grants and fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council, the McKnight Foundation, Tennessee Arts Commission, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts. He is a past member of New Dramatists.
He has performed as a juggler and unicyclist for The Road Company, Pittsburgh's City Theatre Company, and in People's Light's production of his THE THOUGHTS & TRAVELS OF NICKI, a new vaudeville piece for all ages. 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 BAM's 1988 Next Wave Festival and at the Lincoln Center's SERIOUS FUN! Festival 1990. He has been an instructor for the Big Apple Circus' circus arts education program.and has led circus workshops at various theatres, universities, and schools. He has been working in collaboration with Jon Held, a juggler and former member of Airjazz, to develop Jon Held's solo performance piece TALES OF LUNACY. This piece was presented at the Southern Theatre during the 3 Legged Race New Theater Conference in Minneapolis and was produced by Touchstone Theatre.