“An enormously empathetic performer... The show’s great asset is Davis. This really is a very complex performance…”
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E.M. Davis here — I am a trans masc actor (full name Emmett Myles Davis, he/they) and proud member of Actors Equity and SAG-AFTRA who moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in 2024!
Currently, I’m in the L.A. Premiere of Jaclyn Backhaus’ hilariously subversive Wives at East West Players. Following that is another Equity show I’m equally excited to talk about when I’m allowed to.
Since arriving in L.A., I’ve become the first openly trans actor to play both “Maurice” in Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels and “Frog” in Heidi Schreck’s magnificent Grand Concourse (Dezart Performs), the latter for which I recieved a regional Best Supporting Actor nomination! Other West Coast credits include the acclaimed Pasadena Playhouse production of Cyrano de Bergerac (stars Chukwudi Iwuji, Rosa Salazar; director Mike Donahue), David Greig’s Macbeth sequel Dunsinane (Little Fish Theatre), as well as new play workshops with Eight Ball Theatre, Son of Semele, The Blank, and the New Art City Theatre Festival alongside Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle).
Onscreen, I recently wrapped on a indie feature with Emmy nominee Jeff Kober, starred in several short films at the UCLA Film Intensive, and completed projects that include 40 Years in the Desert (UCLA), By the Devil’s Side (New York Film Academy), and the indie drama I Was Listening.
A recipient of the inaugural Sarah Siddons Society Professional Development Grant, I have also had the pleasure of working regionally with South Coast Repertory, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Goodman Theatre, Colorado New Play Festival, and A Red Orchid Theatre, among others. Screen credits include working opposite T.L. Thompson and Brittany Adebumola in The CW's 4400, being one of the faces of the JobsOhio campaign during March Madness, and having the story of my transition featured in the documentary I Am Me.
“[In ‘Fallen Angels’] Davis’s out-of-this-world French lothario makes the suave-and-sophisticated Maurice’s eleventh-hour arrival well worth waiting for...”
After my successful tenure as Artistic Director of the award-winning Broken Nose Theatre, I expanded my focus to producing films as well. The first self-funded short, I'm Pretty Sure My Therapist Thinks I'm a Bad Actor, in which I star opposite Elizabeth Laidlaw (CBS's The Red Line), made its West Coast Premiere at Dances with Films LA, received Best Comedy Short (FunnyAF Festival) and Best Writing in a Comedy (Micheaux Film Festival), and was featured at the Midwest Film Festival’s Emerging Filmmakers Night. My second self-produced short, How’d It Go, directed by Laidlaw and featuring SAG Ensemble Winner Jose Cervantes (FX's The Bear), is currently in post-production.
Enjoy your stay. And if you're ever looking for your friendly queer neighborhood Spider-Man, you now know where to find me!
