Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012. 8:00 PM.
Location: Cubberley Auditorium, School of Education
Actress and playwright, Anna Deavere Smith will speak at Stanford University on Tuesday, May 1, at 8:00 pm, as a part of the Roger W. Heyns Lecture in Religion and Society series. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Cubberley Auditorium of the School of Education and will include a lecture and audience Q & A session. Ms. Smith has won numerous awards, among them two Obies, two Tony nominations, a Drama Desk Award, the Susan V. Berresford Fellowship from United States Artists, and a MacArthur fellowship. She was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize for her play Fires in the Mirror. Her work, in a series called "On The Road: A Search for American Character," combines the journalistic technique of interviewing her subjects with the art of interpreting their words through performance. Her play Let Me Down Easy, which she performed in New York and across the U.S., was recently broadcast on PBS’s Great Performances. She currently plays hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus on Showtime's hit series Nurse Jackie. Additional screen credits include The West Wing, The American President, Rachel Getting Married, Life Support, and others. Honorary degrees include those from Juilliard, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Northwestern, Haverford, and Radcliffe. She has served as Artist in Residence at several organizations as varied as MTV Networks and Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. She teaches at New York University and is the founding director of Anna Deavere Smith Works: A Place for Artistic Excellence and Social Change. The Roger W. Heyns Lecture in Religion and Society was established in 1994 to honor a longtime congregant of University Public Worship at Stanford Memorial Church. Dr. Heyns was formerly the Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley and was committed to the importance of religious life within the liberal arts.
Location: Cubberley Auditorium, School of Education
Actress and playwright, Anna Deavere Smith will speak at Stanford University on Tuesday, May 1, at 8:00 pm, as a part of the Roger W. Heyns Lecture in Religion and Society series. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Cubberley Auditorium of the School of Education and will include a lecture and audience Q & A session. Ms. Smith has won numerous awards, among them two Obies, two Tony nominations, a Drama Desk Award, the Susan V. Berresford Fellowship from United States Artists, and a MacArthur fellowship. She was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize for her play Fires in the Mirror. Her work, in a series called "On The Road: A Search for American Character," combines the journalistic technique of interviewing her subjects with the art of interpreting their words through performance. Her play Let Me Down Easy, which she performed in New York and across the U.S., was recently broadcast on PBS’s Great Performances. She currently plays hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus on Showtime's hit series Nurse Jackie. Additional screen credits include The West Wing, The American President, Rachel Getting Married, Life Support, and others. Honorary degrees include those from Juilliard, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Northwestern, Haverford, and Radcliffe. She has served as Artist in Residence at several organizations as varied as MTV Networks and Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. She teaches at New York University and is the founding director of Anna Deavere Smith Works: A Place for Artistic Excellence and Social Change. The Roger W. Heyns Lecture in Religion and Society was established in 1994 to honor a longtime congregant of University Public Worship at Stanford Memorial Church. Dr. Heyns was formerly the Chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley and was committed to the importance of religious life within the liberal arts.