Rory Smith
Rory Smith (she/they) is an artist specializing in interdisciplinary work, including but not limited to acting, musical theatre, solo performance, comedy/improv, movement, devising, and directing. She graduated with honors from California State University, receiving a BFA in Acting with a minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies––in which they completed their Honors thesis on the AIDS crisis, New Queer Cinema, and LGBTQ+ representation in American films. Their creative work focuses on combining the conceptual with the personal and activating the headspace in tandem the heart-space, with a focus on uplifting marginalized and underrepresented voices and forms of storytelling. Favorite projects include: Fruit Salad: Expired (co-director, devisor), Diana in All’s Well that Ends Well (Hungry as the Sea: Shakespeare Scenes, Sonnets, and Songs with Cal Rep, dir. Reiko Aylesworth), Assassins (Young Artists Forever, dir. Joanna Syiek), and How to Love a Feminist (performed and devised by the ensemble with Feminist Theatre Makers).
Pronouns:
She/They
Sandboxes:
Actor + Singer + Writer + Devisor + Advocate
Degrees & Certifications:
California State University, Long Beach: BFA in Acting, minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Most memorable performance:
My most memorable performance was probably my first time performing a Sondheim musical, which was an outdoor, gender-expansive casted production of Assassins.
Something we wouldn’t know unless you told us:
I spent the first (almost) eleven years of my life in the Boston area, before moving to Southern California for the next eleven. Who knows where the next decade will take me!