Becca Davis is an English Major and Drama Minor from Bristow, Virginia. As a child, she loved writing plays and stories with her older sister and friends. In high school, she started taking theater classes and performing in school plays. During her sophomore year, she discovered her love of Shakespeare when playing Tom Snout in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. After that, her love of classical theater only grew. She began studying English and Drama in college while also participating in Shakespeare on the Lawn, in which she first played Kent in a production of King Lear over Zoom her first year. Becca has since participate in several SotL projects large and small as an actor, assistant director, and dramaturg, and hopes to continue expanding her involvement until she graduates. She also participated as an actor in the New Works Festival in Spring 2021 which consisted of Covid-conscious audio dramas rather than stage shows. She maintains a deep appreciation for this festival and its encouragement of interdisciplinary collaboration between students and the broader Charlottesville community. In Spring 2022 she was the secretary for the Washington Literary Society and Debating Union; this position required her to write and perform weekly comedic monologues in lieu of delivering the minutes from the previous meeting. Becca is interested in writing plays, stand-up comedy, sketches, and short stories that fall in the intersection of the intellectual and the accessible. Her writing tends to include everything from classical allusions to eye roll-worthy puns to bawdy humor, or even all at the same time. She is thrilled to be a Miller Arts Scholar to join a community of passionate and talented artists with whom she can collaborate and learn.