CURRENTLY IN COVID:
MORTRAIT PODE (captioned) from Grace Smith on Vimeo.
- February 2021:
- ALL'S WELL AS IT ENDS WELL: A VALENTINE'S FUNDRAISER (Blind Cupid Shakespeare, Feb 12)
Grace read Hamlet opposite Michael Grenham's Ghost for this romantic (and...nomantic) evening of Shakespeare benefiting Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company. - 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.
- ALL'S WELL AS IT ENDS WELL: A VALENTINE'S FUNDRAISER (Blind Cupid Shakespeare, Feb 12)
- 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.
- News from Gravesend: The Wonderful Year (The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, Jan 15-23)
- 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:
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Balthasar, Romeo and Juliet
Martha Dobie, The Children's Hour Kyra, Skylight Various, She Kills Monsters 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!)
- 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):
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