“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 (he/they) and proud member of Actors Equity and SAG-AFTRA who moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in 2024!
Currently, I’m on set for a yet-to-be-announced independent feature, having just wrapped on both a UCLA Film Intensive and a staged presentation of David Greig’s Macbeth sequel Dunsinane — the latter of which brought me back to Little Fish Theatre, where I became the first openly trans actor to play “Maurice Duclos” in Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, a production that received a number of 2025-26 StageSceneLA Awards.
Since arriving in L.A., I also became the first openly trans actor to play “Frog” in Heidi Schreck’s magnificent Grand Concourse (Dezart Performs), for which I received a regional Best Supporting Actor nomination! Other West Coast work includes the acclaimed Pasadena Playhouse production of Cyrano de Bergerac (starring Chukwudi Iwuji, Rosa Salazar and directed by Mike Donahue), as well as new play development with Son of Semele, The Blank Theatre, and the New Art City Theatre Festival with Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle).
Onscreen projects include 40 Years in the Desert (UCLA), By the Devil’s Side (New York Film Academy), and the indie drama I Was Listening.
“[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...”
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, Northlight Theatre, 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.
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!
