Alric Davis

Alric Davis is driven by the age-old tradition of preserving history through storytelling. Since 2013, he has served 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, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Not About Nightingales. Directing credits include 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 Inagural 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 original play Bashful and the Noize won the 2021 Page to Stage Festival for the Kennedy Center in D.C.