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The Black & The Green Honoree: Roger Guenveur Smith

February 17, 2011

By Staff Reporter

For Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” Smith created the stuttering hero Smiley, as well as an eclectic gallery of characters in “Malcom X,” “Get on the Bus,” “He Got Game,” “Eve’s Bayou,” “Hamlet,” “Deep Cover,” “King of New York,” “All About the Benjamins, “Fighting” and “American Gangster,” for which Smith was nominated for the Screen Actors’ Guild Award. HBO viewers know Smith from the series “K Street,” “Oz,” and “Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives.”
For the international stage, Smith has also created and performed “Who Killed Bob Marley?” “Iceland,” “Two Fires,” “In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat,” “Christopher Columbus 1992,” and, with Mark Broyard, “Inside the Creole Mafia,” distinguished by the LA Weekly as Production of the Year for both its premiere and revival runs.
He has played seasons with Mabou Mines and the Guthrie Theatre, and directed Culture Clash’s Bessie Award-winning “Radio Mambo.”
“Frederick Douglass Now,” recently presented at the Kennedy Center, returns to New York after sold-out engagements at Aaron Davis Hall and La MaMa, where it was originally commissioned.

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