2015 CONFERENCE GUEST SPEAKER

ANNA DEAVERE SMITH

Anna Deavere Smith is an Obie and Drama Desk Award winning playwright, actor, and professor best known for crafting one-woman, multi-character plays about American social issues. Interviewing real people from all walks of life, Smith turns their words into scripts, transforming herself into an astonishing number of characters. The MacArthur Foundation honored Smith with the "Genius" Fellowship for creating "a new form of theatre - a blend of theatrical art, social commentary, journalism, and intimate reverie."
Stage the Change is co-sponsored by Stage the Change, Inc.
The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and Hauppauge Public Schools.
Stage the Change programs are made possible with funds from the
Arts Reach Fund at The New York Community Trust, Long Island; The New York Community Trust 
and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the
​Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This work is supported by Long Island Grants for the Arts through funds provided by the office of the Governor and the
New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council. 
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