Based in Baltimore, Maryland, Alma Davenport is an award-winning playwright, poet, storyteller, director, producer, teaching artist, art scholar, and arts administrator with roots in Washington, DC, and NY. She is the founding Artistic/Producing Director of Brown Soul Productions, a Seattle-based organization operating from 2016 to 2023. It was committed to nurturing and amplifying the voices of women of color through developing and producing creative new work. 

Alma graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC. She has a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Arts Leadership from Seattle University. Her work includes CHAMPAGNE JAMES, THE MACRO EVOLUTION OF..., AMOK, TRANSCENDENCE, and PRIVILEGED. She won the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award (2nd Place), The Goldberg Award for Dramatic Writing, The Horowitz Playwrighting Award, and the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award.