Davia Sacks

Davia Sacks is an actor, singer, composer/lyricist, playwright, and author, and is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity, BMI, and The Dramatists’ Guild.

Growing up in south Florida, she would make up plays and perform them with her friends in carports to an audience of neighbors in lawn chairs. Graduating from carports to actual theaters, Davia went on to perform on Broadway as “Schprintze” in the revival of “Fiddler on the Roof” with Zero Mostel and in the original cast of “Evita”, as well as touring the country in numerous National Tours, Regional Theatre, Dinner Theater, and Theater for Young Audiences.

She spent eight years in the Tony Award-honored BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, where she was one of twenty writers chosen to be represented in the BMI Workshop Songbook with accompanying podcast, and was frequently involved as a composer/lyricist for Off-Off Broadway shows and musical revues. Her songs have been performed by a variety of cabaret artists, and her own cabaret act played to sold-out audiences at NY’s Upstairs at the Duplex.

As a recording artist, she was the lead singer in the 1980’s band “Movieland”, and can also be heard on: “Looking for the Light, A Tribute to Chet Baker” (for which she wrote the title song), Dave Liebman’s “New Vista”, and Phil Markowitz’s “Taxi Ride” (as well as being the composer of the tunes “If It Were Me” on “Taxi Ride” and “Not the Kind of Guy” on “Phil Markowitz Trio Portugal”). Her vocals have also been heard on “One Life to Live”, “Another World”, and “As the World Turns”.

In between writing and performing jobs, she occasionally engaged in the typical ‘bread-and-butter’ gigs, such as trade shows, waiting tables (possibly the worst waitress ever), and office temping-- as well as some not-so-typical ones, such as braving the ravenous masses while passing out samples of chocolate at Macy’s. But most ‘unique’ was her stint as a Cave Woman, twirling a two-foot plastic tibia baton in the dinosaur department at FAO Schwarz.

Davia has written two full-length plays and a collection of short plays and monologues. She is a member of The Robinson House Writers and a regular contributor to the “Harvey Duckman” series of anthologies, including "On A Different Tuesday" and "Justice For Pluto" in addition to "Rum & Rosemary" and "3 Turns Widdershins".