{"id":318839,"date":"2026-08-11T18:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318839\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:36:21","slug":"marchant-davis-receives-2026-micki-grant-artist-residency-at-the-york-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318839\/","title":{"rendered":"March\u00e1nt Davis Receives 2026 Micki Grant Artist Residency at The York Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"

March\u00e1nt Davis<\/a> has received the second annual Micki Grant<\/a> Artist Residency at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre.<\/p>\n

Named in honor of Micki Grant, the groundbreaking actor, composer, lyricist, playwright, director, and York Honorary Board Member, the Micki Grant Artist-in-Residence program supports artists from historically underrepresented communities through paid mentorship, professional development, and hands-on experience within an Off-Broadway theatre.\u00a0This year’s residency is designed for emerging directors with a passion for musical theatre and a strong artistic voice.<\/p>\n

Davis is\u00a0a Brooklyn-based actor, writer, director, producer, and author.\u00a0As an actor, Davis appears in HBO’s Peabody Award-winning film Reality and starred in the feature film The Day Shall Come. His Broadway credits include\u00a0Ain’t No Mo’, Good Night, Oscar, and The Great Society. As a director, his work includes 2 x 2 at the NYU Graduate Acting Program Freeplay Festival, a workshop production of Your Arms Are Too Short to Box With God at The Mercury Store, Purlie at The Boston Conservatory, and audio productions for Playing On Air, including JFK Taxi, The Wayfarer’s Code, and Did I Miss Anything Important? As an associate director, Davis has worked on productions and workshops including\u00a0The Saviors at Atlantic Theater Company, Other at Greenwich House Theater, Wine in the Wilderness at Classic Stage Company, American Eclipsed with Tony-winning director Bill Rauch, and the Tectonic Theater Project Cabaret. He also served as a directing observer on Wedding Band at Theatre for a New Audience. Davis was a Reason to Go Places Directing Fellow at Theatre for a New Audience under Bartlett Sher and was selected as a 2023 Mercury Store Directing Lab Fellow.\u00a0Davis holds an MFA from the NYU Tisch Graduate Acting Program.<\/p>\n

Davis will serve as a directing observer on The York Theatre’s upcoming Mainstage production of Kilgallen, and direct a special 50th Anniversary concert on December 10 of the landmark Broadway musical Vinnette Carroll\u2019s Your Arms Too Short to Box with God (for which Grant wrote additional music and lyrics). Davis\u00a0will work directly with York staff and artistic leadership; attend workshops on grant-writing, fundraising, and navigating theatrical unions; and receive an invitation to The York’s Oscar Hammerstein Award Gala. He will also receive a $3,500 stipend.<\/p>\n

\u201cMicki Grant once said that through her work, she wanted to \u2018open eyes, not turn them away.\u2019 That idea has stayed with me,\u201d says Davis. “It\u2019s something I strive for in my own work\u2014to create theatre that invites people to look closer, feel deeply, and see themselves and one another with greater clarity. To be a resident in Micki\u2019s name, and to continue exploring that spirit through my own work, is a tremendous honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2026 selection committee included Daryl Walker, director-choreographer Kenny Ingram, inaugural resident Dahlak Brathwaite, and York Theatre staff members Joseph Hayward, Wendy Hall, Stephanie Prugh, and Tatiana Montes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March\u00e1nt Davis has received the second annual Micki Grant Artist Residency at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre. Named in honor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-318839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}