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Anna Deavere Smith

Presented by Moreau Center for the Arts at Little Theatre | Saint Mary's College

January 26, 2007

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Anna Deavere Smith will be visiting Saint Mary's College as a guest of the Department of Communication and Performance Studies. Made possible by The Margaret Hill Endowed Chair for Saint Mary's College Theatre, Ms. Smith will be speaking in the Moreau Center for the Arts' Little Theatre. Hailed by Newsweek as "the most exciting individual in American theater," playwright and performance artist Anna Deavere Smith uses her singular brand of theater to explore issues of race, community and character in America. She was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius" Fellowship for creating "a new form of theater - a blend of theatrical art, social commentary, journalism and intimate reverie." Smith is perhaps best known as the author and performer of two one-woman plays about racial tensions in American cities - Fires in the Mirror (OBIE Award-winner and runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize) and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (OBIE Award-winner and Tony Award nominee). Combining the journalistic technique of interviewing subjects from all walks of life with the art of recreating their words in performance, Smith transforms herself onstage into an astonishing number of characters (up to 46 in one show), expressing their own points of view on controversial issues. Smith played National Security Advisor Nancy McNally on NBC's The West Wing and co-starred in the CBS drama Presidio Med. She has appeared in the films The Human Stain, Philadelphia, Dave, The American President and on television in The Practice. The film version of Twilight premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.