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Mar 4, 2018 · Anna Deavere Smith brings her one-woman play "Notes From the Field" to HBO. She tells NPR's Michel Martin about bringing the stories of mass incarceration and social justice to the stage.
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. From left, Smith as Angela King, the aunt of Rodney King; Reginald Denny, the truck driver beaten during the riots; and Young-Soon Han, whose liquor store was looted and burned.
Anna Deavere Smith is many things: an actress, playwright, author, and founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University, where she is also University Professor at Tisch School of the Arts. In 2019, she became a member of the Academy and was a featured speaker at the Annual David M. Rubenstein Lecture held during the Induction weekend. After performing ...
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 ...
2019. Anna Deavere Smith is an actress, playwright, teacher, and cultural commentator who has created a new form of documentary theatre to stage contemporary cultural debates. She looks at current events from multiple perspectives, then combines interviews with subjects with the art of interpreting their words through performance.
Nov 11, 2019 · NYT Critic’s Pick. Nearly three decades after it was first unveiled, the panoramic view provided by Anna Deavere Smith’s “Fires in the Mirror” still makes you catch your breath and shake ...
Nov 13, 2023 · November 13, 2023 3:00am. Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic Unique Nicole/Getty Images. For the first time in nearly a century, The Atlantic magazine will publish a new play: The Ghost of Slavery ...
