Starting in 1975, Paul Davis began designing posters for the New York Shakespeare Festival, produced by Joseph Papp. At the time, this festival also featured plays by other writers and was hosted by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Streamers premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT before moving to the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater after winning the New York Drama Critics’ Award for Best American Play. This is one of Davis’s best compositions. He originally intended the paratrooper to appear to be falling toward the viewer; however, at the last minute, he turned the painting upside down to better represent the disorienting fear of a person freefalling through space as his parachute fails to deploy.