BOBBY SMITH
Award winning, multi-disciplined teacher, performer, and director experienced in developing and implementing new theatrical works and sustainable teaching programs. Decades of experience working at the top of the industry collaborating with and assisting directors and choreographers such as Susan Stroman, Scott Ellis, James Raitt, and Stuart Ross creating and re-creating new Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. • Direction and staging approval as an artistic consultant for Forever Plaid and The World Goes ‘Round • Deep industry connections in Washington D.C., Baltimore, and New York • Strong collaborator • Resourceful program creator • Working theater professional • Experience in many facets of theatrical work and development • Successful development and implementation of intensive programs for advanced students • Oversaw the artistic growth and programming for a community building, arts engagement organization for five years • Helen Hayes Award winning actor Developed opportunities for children of all ages and backgrounds to set and achieve goals through the arts • Built community arts engagement and encouraged parents to participate in and facilitate productions for their children
Peter Marks, Washington Post: It is Bobby Smith's dementedly serene Guiteau, assassin of James Garfield, though, who most exhilaratingly embodies the show's ethos, revealed in equal parts gun smoke and madness. "I am going to the Lordy," he sings on the way to his execution, as if flights of angels are accompanying him. You'll find the barbarity of "Assassins," distilled by Sondheim's refined sense of the absurd, a weirdly enjoyable dive into crazy.
“I just wanted to say, in the cold clear light of morning, that your work on this challenging material is so excellent, so precise, so well-sung, and so unforced, that it just took my breath away.” David Loud on Simply Sondheim.
See What I Wanna See - Signature Theatre with Rachel Zampelli
Helen Hayes Award
Grey Gardens - Studio Theatre with Barbara Walsh
Grand Hotel - Signature Theatre
COMPANY - Signature Theatre with Matthew Scott, Sandy Bainum
Production Art with Holly Twyford
A Little Night Music- Signature Theatre with Holly Twyford
Assassins - Signature Theatre
Jacques Brel - MetroStage
Theatre Washington Helen Hayes Award
A Christmas Carol - Fords Theatre
Production Art
Tech Rehearsal Blackbeard - Signature Theatre
Threepenny Opera - Signature Theatre with Donna Migliaccio and Erin Driscoll
