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Ellie Davis
Ellie was tons of fun and very sweet, especially for someone
who came more from the performance art background, as opposed
to being “an actor.” She was a friend of my friend
Camille, and we met when Camille and I were both working at
a gardening store in San Francisco. Ellie was putting together
her own piece, The Girlie Show, when she first became interested
in my stuff, attending a performance of Troijka and being reasonably
impressed. A couple months later we cast her as Britney in the
original production of Love Egos Alternative Rock, a role which
she rendered in a fabulously bimbonic way, even creating a speech
cadence for the character that was delightfully devoid of any
rhythm and thus thoroughly undermining her role as the band’s
drummer. After that Ellie was off to Brazil for six months,
building houses for the poor as part of the St. Vincent de Paul
Scoiety and not resurfacing until my twenty-sixth birthday party,
when she magically appeared as if she’d been here all
along. Since then I haven’t run into her, but I suspect
that she continues to be the same bubbly, amiable young woman
looking to help the world and do some art along the way. She
even tried to get me a gig writing a play about St. Vincent
de Paul, but I couldn’t find enough to go with, especially
as the most exciting part of his life was his kidnapping by
pirates, and I don’t think that’s the kind of play
she was hoping for.
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