For over 30 years, he served as Artist in Residence at Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
[3] In the early 1960s, Davis worked in art studios, print shops, and advertising agencies.
He left the job of art director at a New York agency to become a freelance graphic designer and part-time puppeteer.
[6] In the early 1970s, Davis co-directed The National Theater of Puppet Arts, Inc. with Carol Fijan.
Based in New York, the company of puppeteers produced excerpts from Shakespearean plays and Greek classics.
These include The Leprechaun of Donegal (1980), The Golden Axe (1982), Three Festival Dances (1982), Beauty and the Beast (1984), and Fables of Ancient Rome (1988).
[2] The Puppetry Journal called his adaptation of Beauty and the Beast “one of the most impressive one-person shows from an extraordinary puppeteer.”[10] In 1985, Kathryn Lasky followed Davis as he mounted a production of Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp.
"[16] In 2021, the National Capital Puppetry Guild presented Davis with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
[17] In celebration of this award, a proclamation was written by Levar Stoney, Mayor of the City of Richmond.
A personal note of congratulations was written by Dr. Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States of America.