He attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles and American Studies at Occidental College. His dad was a judge, and his mother, a dentist. Lee’s direction of Smith’s Bessie Award-winning Rodney King marks the ninth collaboration in a relationship unparalleled in American cinema. Early Life, Family, And Education Smith was born to Sherman Smithand Helen Guenveur on July 27, 1955. He has an adult daughter from a former marriage. Newton Story into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm directed by his longtime colleague, Spike Lee. Smith was born in Berkeley, and raised in Los Angeles, where he resides with his wife, the writer LeTania Kirkland, and their three children. This project is a collaboration with the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Keene State College Sidore Lecture Series, and is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies. Roger Guenveur SmActor, writer, director Gave in to the Acting Bug 2. Roger Guenveur Smith adapted his Obie Award-winning solo performance of A Huey P. Performing History debrief discussion at Cohen Center with Roger Guenveur Smith.Post-show talkback and reception with Roger Guenveur Smith.How does one simultaneously serve the living and the dead, and at what cost? In collaboration with sound designer Marc Anthony Thompson, Smith interrogates our present moment through a rigorous examination of our not-so-distant past His father was Henry Smith, a cousin of Capt. As a steward of his daughter’s legacy, Frank navigated loss, adolescent ambition, and the criticism of those who questioned his motivations, the authenticity of the diary, and even the Holocaust itself. Family of Roger Smith 'He was a native of Maryland, born in Frederick County in 1790, and was of distinguished lineage. Roger Guenveur Smith has been inspired by Otto Frank, father of diarist Anne Frank, to create a solo performance informed by both tragedy and triumph. Smith (credits include Do the Right Thing, The Birth of a Nation, Rodney King) blends the historical and performative in a piece about the man who lives on past loss to share his family’s experiences and memories through his daughter’s famous diary. Inspired by research initiated at Keene State College, and presented as a Sidore Lecture performance in conjunction with the 36th anniversary of the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Acclaimed stage and screen actor Roger Guenveur Smith returns to Keene with a stirring new solo performance piece exploring the story and legacy of Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank.
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