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Davis Hall's Bio

Davis was born in Atlanta, when the skyline was lower and the city still "Old South." His family moved to Chicago-land in time for High School and college. He graduated from Northwestern University's School of Speech in 1968. Then he lived, studied and worked for three and a half years in London. During that time (thank you, Roger Hendricks Simon) he performed at The Mickery, Holland, and at The Royal Court, London. Great years to be young and anywhere but Vietnam.

He got his first Equity contract in 1972 in What The Butler Saw  at the Old Orchard Dinner Theatre in the Chicago suburbs. (He'd seen the premiere in London.)

He returned to England in 1979 to be a member of the British-American Repertory Company. Among the pleasures of that tour was working with Tom Stoppard and playing the Theatre Royal Bath,
a theatre that still had a "call boy." (A knock on the dressing room door, an ancient voice saying, "Mr. Hall, beginners please.")

And so it goes:

Broadway: Butley with Alan Bates; Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth (premiere tour, British-American Repertory Company).
Off & Off-Off-Broadway: Edward the Second (Red Bull Theater); Frankie (premiere, Irish Arts Center); The Brothers Berg (premiere, New Federal Theatre). Regional: The Importance of Being Earnest (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Touch of Rapture & The Good Daughter (premieres, NJ Repertory Company); The School For Scandal (directed by Mark Lamos, McCarter Theatre); The Harmfulness of Tobacco (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey (Arkansas Rep); The Mystery of Irma Vep (Syracuse Stage).
Film: The Agency, Knife Point (both shorts); Quiz Show; I Shot Andy Warhol. Television: “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “The Guiding Light,” “As The World Turns," and "New York New."

Favorite roles include Young Charlie in the world premiere of Da (Olney Theater), Charlie in The Foreigner (Theatre Virginia), Festé in Twelfth Night (Hartford Stage), Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey (Arkansas Rep), Arthur in New-Found-Land (British-American Repertory Co.), the Duke in Measure for Measure (Lark Theatre), and Jane/Lord Edgar in Irma Vep.

 with Joe Costa & Matthew Rauch
   Red Bull Theater's Edward the Second

He met his wife, costume designer Ingrid Price, while playing Hamlet as a Guest Artist at Florida State University in 1980.

                     with Alan Ball as Horatio

Davis performed twice with his sister, Harriet Hall. In 1974 they appeared in the world premiere of Hugh Leonard's Summer  and in 1980 in Hay Fever as brother and sister with Celeste Holm. Sadly, Harriet passed away at the end of September, 2007.

Still a work (and life) in progress...

This page updated 2008-12-31