Roger Guenveur Smith Biography

Roger is an actor writer and director whose work has been internationally acclaimed.
Roger 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 Mr. Lee's Oscar-nominated Do The Right Thing Mr. 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'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.

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