ANNA DEAVERE SMITH WORKS, INC.

Anna Deavere Smith Works is a non-profit organization founded by prize-winning actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith. Our work strives to create a community of talented international artists to interact, exchange ideas, share their work, and engage in constructive criticism as a means to enrich the genre of socially-committed works of art. Bringing artists into dialogue with scholars, social and natural scientists, activists, students, and politicians who are addressing the same topics of social concern, we hope to find new means and ways of thinking to address the world's most pressing issues.

In 1997 Anna Deavere Smith established the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University. We are currently working on a series of symposia and an artist residency to take place at New York University beginning in the fall of 2010.