Roger Guenveur Smith Audio
Roger Guenveur Smith is an actor, writer, and director whose work has been internationally acclaimed.
He created and performed the Obie Award-winning A Huey P. Newton Story and adapted it into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm, directed by his longtime colleague, Spike Lee. For Spike Lee''s Oscar-nominated Do The Right Thing, Roger Guenveur Smith created the stuttering hero Smiley, one of many in a gallery of memorable characters for the stage and screen.
Also among his historically-inspired performances are Frederick Douglass Now, Christopher Columbus 1992, and the award-winning duet Inside The Creole Mafia, a "not-too-dark comedy" in collaboration with New Orleans native Mark Broyard. Mr. Smith also directed the distinguished performance trio Culture Clash in their Bessie Award-winning Radio Mambo.
Roger Guenveur Smith’s most recent work includes a new solo, The Watts Towers Project, and the Spalding Gray retrospective Leftover Stories To Tell, both cited among the best of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times; and Who Killed Bob Marley? which inaugurated Harlem''s new GatehouseTheater.
Mr. Smith also co-starred with Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in Ridley Scott''s Vietnam War era epic, American Gangster.
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This solo portrait traces the mythic rise and fall of the Black Panther Party leader, based on his own brilliant, incendiary words.
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Smith's edgy and funny The Watts Towers Project focuses on Simon Rodia, the Italian immigrant who spent 33 years building his towers, only to walk away from them, never to return.
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