Who is Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith 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).Smith is a recipient of The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2013). In 2015 she was selected as the Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University.
Early life
Smith was born in 1950 into an African-American family in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Anna Rosalind (née Young), an elementar...
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- Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?
- People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
- Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
- Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
- I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
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Shaguarhuntress: congratulations to anna deavere smith, 2023 lptw rachel crothers leadership awardee, and all of the recipients of the theatre women awards!Brucerfeldman: not much has changed 30 years after the original production of anna deavere smith's "twilight: los angeles, 1992"
Andrew_hofw: “artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. they take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.” - anna deavere smith
Zasupitts3: why isn’t anna deavere smith a household name? she’s got a career with no blemishes. not many can say that. add to that her monumental one woman documentary theatre. she is a powerhouse and truly eloquent and elegant and erudite.
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