| Davi Napoleon is a freelance feature writer, reviewer and theater historian. A former columnist for TheaterWeek, she currently writes a monthly feature for Live Design. Her book, Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater, explores the offstage turmoil and onstage triumphs of the Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn; it features a foreword by Hal Prince. Among the newspapers, magazines, and journals that have run her stories are American Film, American Theater, InTheater, Michigan Alumnus, Michigan Today, New York Magazine, Other Stages, The Paris Review, Playbill, ScriptWriter News, the SoHo Weekly News, and Seventeen. In her hometown, Ann Arbor, MI, she has written for the Ann Arbor News, the Ann Arbor Observor, and Detroit, the Sunday magazine of the Detroit Free Press. She holds a doctorate from New York University as well as graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Michigan, where she studied playwriting with Kenneth Thorpe Rowe and saw two of her plays acknowledged by college productions and Hopwood Awards; she subsequently served as a judge for this creative writing contest. She received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to study at the Eugene O'Neill Center's National Critics Institute. Napoleon has taught theater history, dramatic literature, journalism, and composition at Albion College and at Eastern Michigan University. She has directed student productions at Albion and at Washtenaw Community College as well as at community theaters in Michigan and Brooklyn, NY. |
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| Davi Napoleon has done online journalism workshops, coached acting students for graduate school auditions, doctored plays, and ghosted manuscripts for entertainment industry celebrities and university administrators. She is availabe to write, teach, ghost, and do dramaturgical research for production bibles. contact davi napoleon |
| Davi Napoleon is married to Greg Napoleon. They are the parents of Randy Napoleon and Brian Napoleon. She is the daughter of Fay Kleinman and the late Jack Skurnick. |