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    Anna Deavere Smith

    American actress, playwright and professor

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  1. Mar 6, 2021 · Obesity is not a character flaw; it’s a medical issue. That’s why we need to stop blaming weight gain on willpower. Learn more about the mysteries of fat and its role in hormone production, hunger, and even pregnancy.

  2. Jun 12, 2018 · Compiled from three years’ worth of interviews, Anna Deavere Smith’s Notes from the Field confronts the criminal justice system and inequality in the US Oliver Laughland Tue 12 Jun 2018 10.22 ...

  3. Aug 17, 2020 · In 1993, the photographer Richard Avedon made a portrait, in edgeless black-and-white, of the playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith, to accompany an article in this magazine by John Lahr.

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  4. Smith is currently the Ann O’Day Maples Professor of the Arts at Stanford University. Tricycle caught up with Smith in Manhattan, following the Broadway run of Twilight. From the opening performance of Anna Deavere Smith’s one-woman show Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, in which she recreates the characters involved in the 1992 L.A. riots.

  5. Chasing That Which Is Not Me / Chasing That Which Is Me. The 73rd A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts presented by Anna Deavere Smith. Sundays, April 28–May 19, 2024. Award-winning actress, playwright, and professor Anna Deavere Smith explores performance as a way of knowing in this four-part series.

  6. Sep 6, 2022 · Former Bunting Fellow Anna Deavere Smith develops revival of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.”

  7. Deavere Smith is perhaps best known for her examination of race relations, having written and performed Fires in the Mirror, a raw view of those affected by the Crown Heights riots of 1991, and Twilight: Los Angeles, which tackled the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Along the way, she's earned two Obies, a MacArthur "genius" grant, and several Tony ...

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