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     • Anna Deavere Smith's ground-breaking solo shows blur the lines between theater and journalism, using text from real-life encounters to create gripping portraits.
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   • She also worships all the God and Goddess, and also celebrates all the festivals. Her hobby is acting. She loves doing acting in movies and shows. Anna Deavere Smith started her schooling life at a private school in Baltimore, Maryland, United States and completed her primary education there. After that, he did her high school at the same school.

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   Who is Anna Deavere Smith?

   • Hailed by Newsweek as "the most exciting individual in American theater," Anna Deavere Smith uses solo performance as a public medium to explore issues of race, identity and community in America. Her grandfather once told her, "Say a word often enough, and it becomes you."

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   Who is Deavere Smith?

   • Her play, Let Me Down Easy, premiered this year at the Long Wharf Theater. 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.

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   Who was Anna Smith?

   • Smith was born on September 18, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland, the first of five children to Anna, an elementary school educator, and Deaver, a coffee merchant. In middle school, she discovered a gift for mimicry; in college, an interest in social justice.

   The Many Faces of Anna Deavere Smith

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3. www.timeout.com › london › theatre‘Notes from the Field’ review - Time Out

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   Jun 15, 2018 · The title of Anna Deavere Smith’s phenomenally good solo show makes it sound dispassionate, or scientific. It’s not. Yes, ‘Notes from the Field’ is a devastatingly well researched takedown...

4. www.playbill.com › article › what-do-critics-thinkWhat Do Critics Think of Anna Deavere Smith’s ... - Playbill

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   Nov 3, 2016 · The Verdict What Do Critics Think of Anna Deavere Smith’s Notes from the Field? In her newest solo show, the award-winning playwright turns her attention to the school-to-prison pipeline ...

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     Anna Deavere Smith talks decades-long career, verbatim theater, and 'becoming America' | NPR

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6. www.ted.com › speakers › anna_deavere_smithAnna Deavere Smith | Speaker | TED

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   Actor, playwright, social critic. Anna Deavere Smith Works Books by Anna Deavere Smith IMDb. TED Speaker. Personal profile. Anna Deavere Smith's ground-breaking solo shows blur the lines between theater and journalism, using text from real-life encounters to create gripping portraits.

7. exeuntmagazine.com › features › anna-deavere-smithAnna Deavere Smith: “I’m chasing that which is not me”

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   Jun 18, 2018 · In our conversation before the performance, Anna Deavere Smith tells me that although she has a number of artistic inspirations, her unique method of creating theatre solely through verbatim materials is not a technique inspired by any other theatre practitioner.

8. tricycle.org › magazine › wearing-words-interviewWearing the Words: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith

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   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.

9. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2020/08/24The Urgency of Anna Deavere Smith’s “Twilight: Los Angeles”

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   Aug 17, 2020 · For her one-woman shows, she conducts hundreds of interviews about high-profile civic events and, through a miracle of compression, presents verbatim the answers of her subjects, one...

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10. stanfordmag.org › the-voices-of-anna-deavere-smithThe Voices of Anna Deavere Smith | STANFORD magazine

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    It was two solo shows, produced in rapid succession, that catapulted her to celebrity in the early 1990s. In Fires in the Mirror, Smith portrayed 29 people talking about the race riots that broke out in 1991 after a car accident killed a child in Brooklyn's Crown Heights.