Anna Deavere Smith on Identity, Racism, and Disrupting the System

INVITATION TO ACTION: Read a scene from any of Anna Deavere Smith’s plays

DESCRIPTION: Anna Deavere Smith speaks to her work at Signature’s first play reading for Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. She and Michael Benjamin Washington (from Signature’s 2019 production of Smith’s Fires in the Mirror) evoke Ntozake Shange’s poetic words about identity.

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