Patricia Davis’ play “Digna,” based on the life of Mexican human rights attorney Digna Ochoa, was produced in February-March 2017 by the Digna Theater, a professional theater company in Tucson, Arizona. Directed by Barclay Goldsmith, the play had an sold-out run and was nominated for a Mac Award for Best New Drama. It was produced by the theater the following fall in Spanish and has since been produced in Spanish and English in Mexico City and on border. Patricia was part of the second cohort in the Mead Center for American Voices Playwrights' Arena at Arena Stage, where she developed “Digna.”
​“Alternative Methods," about a psychologist's work on a torture team in Iraq, was produced in the New York International Fringe Festival, where it won a Best Director Award and garnered a Pick of the Fringe recommendation from the New York Theatre Review. “Alternative Methods” was also selected for readings at Unicorn Theatre, Urban Stages, Georgia State College and University, and Catholic University, in collaboration with Theater J.
Short plays include “Daphne in Leaf,” selected for production in the Kathy Rasmussen Women’s Theater's Magical Creatures Festival in 2019; “Four Minutes,” a finalist for the Bridge Initiative, produced at the Human Rights Arts Festival (2023) and the Jane Addams New Play Festival (2019); “Notes from the New World,” performed in 2020 as part of Planet Connections Theater Festivity’s Zoom Fest; and “Fish Story,” selected to be read in the 29th Street Playwrights Collectives' Feisty Women Festival in 2018. “After the Blood," a one-act about two activists in Washington, DC during the summer of 2014, at the height of the war in Gaza, received a reading at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in January 2015, and “Cleared,” a fifteen-minute play focused on Guantanamo, protests at the White House, and the conundrums of an idealistic mom with highly placed friends, was selected by Theater Alliance for presentation in the Kennedy Center’s 2013 Page-to-Stage Festival. Patricia’s work is included in Smith and Kraus’ Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2024. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Her collection of poetry, The Water that Broke You, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2013 and her poems appear in Image, Southern Humanities Review, Smartish Pace, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and other journals.
Together with Dianna Ortiz, Patricia co-authored a nonfiction book, The Blindfold’s Eyes (Orbis, 2003), the story of Ortiz’ torture in Guatemala and her recovery and search for justice. Patricia earned her MFA from American University.