Symposium attendees will receive a private screening link upon registration. Rodney King is available now to watch on Netflix. Now, Smith asks us once again, "Can we all get along?" D: Spike Lee, US, 2016, 52m It's been 30 years since the world witnessed King's brutal treatment at the hands of four police officers and their subsequent acquittal which sparked the LA riots.
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In a riveting one-man performance, Smith unravels the myth of "the first reality TV star." Rodney King tells the story of a flawed, good-hearted everyman-from his harsh entry into the national spotlight to a lonely death at the bottom of his swimming pool. History, poetry and tragedy collide when stage and screen actor Roger Guenveur Smith tackles the thorny odyssey of Rodney King. Roger studied at Yale University and Occidental College and has taught at both institutions, as well as CalArts, directing his Performing History Workshop. His many screen credits also include work inspired by Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Nat Turner and Madame CJ Walker.
He has staged travelogues of Iceland, Panama, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Miami and New Orleans. Roger Guenveur Smith (born July 27, 1955) is an American actor, director, and writer who voiced Bao-Dur in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The. His latest solo is inspired by Otto Frank, father of diarist Anne Frank. His history-infused work for the international stage also includes studies of Christopher Columbus, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley, iconoclast artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Simon Rodia, and Charles White, and baseball greats Juan Marichal and John Roseboro. Newton Story and Frederick Douglass Now at Dartmouth, and returns with a streaming version and discussion of his Bessie Award-winning Rodney King, directed by longtime colleague Spike Lee. Theater remained Smith's main focus through one-man shows like "Juan and John" (2009) and "Rodney King" (2011), though he continued to appear in features and on television, most notably Ridley Scott's "American Gangster" (2007), the indie comedy-drama "Dope" (2015) and Nate Parker's Nat Turner biopic, "The Birth of a Nation" (2016).Roger Guenveur Smith is an actor, writer and director who has created a prolific body of work on stage and screen. Newton Story" to the screen with a Peabody Award-winning film version of the one-man show. In 2001, Smith and Lee brought "A Huey P. The exposure afforded by "Story" and these film appearances led to other roles in features, including "Deep Cover" (1992), John Singleton's "Poetic Justice" (1993) and recurring roles on "Oz" (HBO, 1997-2003) and "All My Children" (ABC, 1970-2011). The staging in this thrust theater is beautifully. Smith portrays Otto, sole survivor of the Frank family and publisher of his daughter’s famed diary, as haunted by guilt and sorrow. (Jay Yamada) Like Smith’s other plays, Otto Frank is both history lesson and eulogy. Along the way, Smith developed a connection with filmmaker Spike Lee, who cast him in small but pivotal roles in several of his films, including the mentally disabled savant, Smiley, in "Do the Right Thing" (1989), as well as "Malcolm X" (1992) and "Get on the Bus" (1996). Roger Guenveur Smith in 'Otto Frank' at Magic Theatre in San Francisco. After debuting the show in Los Angeles, Smith brought "Story" to theaters across the country, picking up significant theater awards on its route to New York and an Obie Award in the early 1990s. Newton Story," a one-man drama based on the life of the Black Panther Party co-founder. He successfully auditioned for Yale's Drama School and attended the Keskidee Arts Centre in London, England, before earning his breakout project with "A Huey P. Born Jin Berkeley, California, Smith initially intended to pursue a graduate degree in history, but changed majors after developing an interest in the theater. Newton Story" (1989), as well as a character actor in films ranging from "Do the Right Thing" (1989) to "American Gangster" (2007). Actor, writer and director Roger Guenveur Smith was the well-respected and award-winning creator of such acclaimed one-man shows as "A Huey P.
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