My name is Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith is an actor, a teacher, a playwright, and the creator of an acclaimed series of one-woman plays based on her interviews with diverse voices from communities in crisis. She has won two Obie Awards, two Tony nominations for her play Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, and a MacArthur Fellowship. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Fires in the Mirror. She has had roles in the films Philadelphia, An American President, The Human Stain, and Rent, and she has worked in television on The Practice, Presidio Med, and The West Wing. The founder and director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, she teaches at New York University and lives in New York City.
My Ideas
- Whom would you like to interview, and what would you ask?
- A couple of athletes and Nelson Mandela.
- What is human nature?
- If our talents are distributed randomly, how do we use them fairly?
Paul Krugman
Jimmy Wales
Richard Armitage
Billy Collins
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