Career
Author Film and Stage At 27, Davenport became the youngest director accepted into the Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit. His interview was with Martin Landau. He made his New York stage debut in the opera adaptation of Tom Wolfe"s "The Bonfire of the Vanities," directed by Michael Bergmann and opposite opera heavyweights Randal Turner, Adrienne Danrich and Anne-Carolyn Bird.
In 2010, Davenport founded the production company First Lady Films with Leo.
He will make his feature debut with a big screen adaptation of John Kaye"s novel The Dead Circus. Future projects Davenport is preparing to mount a stage revival of Eugene O"Neill"s Long Day"s Journey Into Night with an all-black cast starring Alfre Woodard.
A production of the classic O"Neill play has only been staged once before with an all African-American cast, in 1982 with Earle Hyman, Ruby Dee, Thommie Blackwell and Peter Francis-James. Awards and nominations.
