Anna Deavere Smith
Former Stanford faculty member ANNA DEAVERE SMITH, starring in the hit TV series Nurse Jackie, is returning to the Farm today, Wednesday, for Grand Rounds at the School of Medicine.
PAUL COSTELLO, executive director of the School of Medicine Office of Communication and Public Affairs, writes about her visit in Scope, which was recently named “Best New Medical Weblog” in Medgadget‘s 2009 Medical Weblog Awards.
Smith taught at Stanford from 1990 to 2000, after having taught at Carnegie Mellon, Yale and New York University. While at Stanford, she was the Ann O’Day Maples Professor in the Arts.
At Grand Rounds, Smith is performing excerpts from her latest play, Let Me Down Easy, in which her characters confront profound issues of life and death. She also previewed the play in 2006 at the Roble Studio Theater.
Read more about her visit in Scope.
