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    Anna Deavere Smith

    American actress, playwright and professor

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  1. Anna Deavere Smith is an actress, playwright, teacher, and author. Her most recent play and film, Notes from the Field, looks at the vulnerability of youth, inequality, the criminal justice system, as well as contemporary activism. The New York Times named the stage version of Notes from the Field among The Best Theater of 2016, and Time ...

  2. Follow. Anna Deavere Smith is an actress, playwright, teacher, and author. She is credited with having created a new form of theater. Smith's work combines the journalistic technique of interviewing her subjects with the art of interpreting their words through performance. Smith has created over fifteen one-person shows based on hundreds of ...

  3. Anna Deavere Smith is metamorphosing at an alarming rate. One moment she’s a student, the next she’s an inmate. Later she’s a politician, an activist, and eventually a podium-pounding reverend. By the conclusion of her performance in the play-turned-film "Notes from the Field," Smith has dramatized 18 different real-life people affected by America’s school-to-prison pipeline.

  4. Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwright, and professor.She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in The West Wing (2000–06), hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009–15), and as U.S. District Court Clerk Tina Krissman on the ABC show For the People (2018–19).

  5. Anna Deavere Smith is an actress, playwright, and author. It has been said that she created a new form of theater. When granted the prestigious MacArthur Award, her work was described as "a blend of theatrical art, social commentary, journalism, and intimate reverie." She has performed in film and television as well as on stage.

  6. Professor Anna Deavere Smith of the Department of Art & Public Policy at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts has joined the Academy of Arts & Sciences' Commission on Reimagining Our Economy. The Commission on Reimagining Our Economy comprises of scholars, business leaders, journalists, practitioners, faith leaders, and artists from ...

  7. New York University professors from a range of disciplines met at NYU Law to honor Professor Anna Deavere Smith, who received this year’s George Polk Career Award for Special Achievement in Journalism. The notion of the truth as something subjective and difficult to define was discussed throughout the event in the context of art, journalism ...

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