Regional: Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Denver Center Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre. He is the winner of two Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago’s top theatrical award) for his performances in Wilson’s Fences (2006) and King Hedley II (2020) at Court Theatre. Gem of the Ocean, Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson. Smith has performed extensively in plays by August Wilson at theatres in Chicago and around the country. Smith plays the ex-slave’s former comrade in the Union Army during the Civil War - a role he played in a 2015 production of the play at Court Theatre in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, John Goodman, and Kelly Reilly in Flight (2012. Gem of the Ocean premiered at The Goodman Theatre on April 28, 2003, and reintro. The play–the first installment of “The Pittsburgh Cycle,” Wilson’s epic, decade-by-decade, ten-play chronicle of the African-American experience in the 20th century–concerns a former slave in early-20th-century Pittsburgh. His first paid acting role was in a summer stock theater stage production. Theatre can happen in gardens and up trees as well as in theatres. Randolph in downtown Chicago’s Loop Theatre District. Smith ’86, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre, is featured in August Wilson’s drama Gem of the Ocean, running January 22 through February 27 at the Goodman Theatre, located at 170 N. Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum A.C.
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