Interview
By: Anna Deavere Smith; Kevin L. Fuller; Andrea Armstrong
Date: August 27, 1993
Source: Fuller, Kevin L., and Andrea Armstrong. "Media Killers: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith." Appendx. Issue 2. Available online at ; website home page: http://www.appendx.org (accessed July 6, 2003).
About the Artist: Anna Deavere Smith (1950–), professor, actor, and author, was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. With financial support from the Ford Foundation, she founded the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University. Smith has taught at Stanford and Yale, and in 2003 at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and Law School. In 1996, Smith received a MacArthur "genius" Grant.
Introduction
Blending theater, journalism, and social commentary, Anna Deavere Smith is credited for having...
Source: American Decades Primary Sources: 1990-1999, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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