CURRENTLY IN COVID:

• February 2021:
  • MORTRAIT PODE: A PRE-RECORDED EVENT (Undiscovered Countries: February Feels, Feb 6)
    Follow Grace down the pre-recorded rabbit hole as she searches her phone for that One Elusive Great Selfie that's gonna be as good as That One Gorgeous Person She Follows On Instagram.
    Part of an evening of genre-defying art celebrating "not-romance" (or "nomance") -  platonic love, bestie love, sibling love, stanning - all up for grabs in another virtual installation of Undiscovered Countries: The Infinite Festival.  More info and full lineup TBD.
• January 2021: 
  • News from Gravesend: The Wonderful Year (The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, ​Jan 15-23)
    London, 1603. The plague. Playwrights Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, out of work due to the theatre closings, wrote separately and then collaboratively on what they saw and lived. Their "Plague Pamphlets", along with excerpts from Shakespeare's plaguetime writings, have been adapted by Regina Buccola and orchestrated for three actors by Peter Garino who give eyewitness accounts of the devastating time, unfortunately, now familiar to all of us.  Grace reads Woman, Juliet, and Prince Hal.
    Pre-recorded on Zoom, with live artist talkbacks after each showing.  More info here.
• December 2020:
  • Reprised SCANTRON: A LIVE EVENT for an evening of virtual exhibitions curated by Denise Yvette Serna and Hostel Earphoria
• November 2020:
  • Devised and performed original piece SCANTRON: A LIVE EVENT for Undiscovered Countries: YES/NOvember
• October 2020:
  • Contributing blogger, Et Alia LLC: ​"Doing The Impossible"
  • Principal in short film The Bully, dir. Hayward Suggs
• September 2020:
  • ​Theatrical and streaming premieres of Dreaming Grand Avenue (principal; Chicago Film Project, dir. Hugh Schulze)
• August 2020: 
  • ​​On-set, socially distanced, and newly SAG-AFTRA-eligible for THE ART OF SISTERS film adaptation
  • Officially an Artistic Affiliate with American Blues Theater!

​- VIRTUAL PLAYREADS:

Eleanor of Aquitaine, ​The Lion in Winter
Lampito/Ensemble, Lysistrata​
Agnes White, ​Bug
Miranda Lionheart, Theatre of Blood
Lydia Lubey, All My Sons
Emma, Betrayal
Doctor/Five Wits, Everyman​
Hero/Conrade, Much  Ado About Nothing
Cecily Cardew, The Importance of Being Earnest
​Strophe, Phaedra's Love
Charlotte Corday, The Revolutionists
Viola, Twelfth Night 
Puck/Philostrate, A Midsummer Night's Dream 
Rose, The Flick
Isabella/Win, Top Girls
Ensemble, People, Places, and Things
Request clips: gracesmithactor@gmail.com

- SELF-TAPED AUDITIONS (40 and counting!)

Grace Smith - Life In Pandemic from Grace Smith on Vimeo.

- WEBINARS ATTENDED:

• Artistic Fundraising - The Pandemic Pivot
• The Shakespeare Project of Chicago - Inside Shakespeare's First Folio 
• The Actors Fund - 2020 Symposium: The Virtual Creative Classroom
• Steppenwolf Theatre - Aesthetic Education Boot Camp; Text Analysis (with Kate Arrington and Jon Michael Hill)
• Michael Cassara Casting - Q&A: The Industry and COVID-19
• Paskal Rudnicke Casting - Self-Tapes 101
• Simon Casting - Auditioning in Quarantine
• ...and several Fast Fuel sessions (thanks ForgeNYC!)

 - COMEDIC SKETCHES (written/directed by Cameron Petti):