Calvin Leon Smith
Biography
Calvin Leon Smith (he/him) co-starred in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham on Broadway, following an acclaimed run at the Public Theater. Television credits include Barry Jenkins’ award-winning Amazon series “The Underground Railroad,” HBO’s “The Deuce,” and the acclaimed anthology series “High Maintenance.” Smith’s other theater credits include The Animal Kingdom (Connolly Theatre, Jack Serio director); Open Throat (Little Island, Caitlin Ryan O’Connell director), Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat (the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit), The Miser (Moliere in the Park), On The Grounds Of Belonging (Long Wharf Theatre), several plays with the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Clarence Brown Theatre, and Macbeth at Shakespeare on the Sound. On film, Smith has appeared in Benny & James (Cannes Film Festival premiere), Better Man (Best Actor, Queens World Film Festival), Paper Friends, and RSVP. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School.
Credits
Cabaret, Fat Ham
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