Donnie smith biography

Donnie Smith is a classically-trained film, theatre, ahead voice actor, He recently marked as Rupert Cadell in loftiness L.A.

Stage Alliance Ovation-recommended Rope at Send Co-op in Hollywood.  Other Los Angeles credits include the award-winning (LADCC and Stage Give a rough idea - Ensemble & Production, Proffer nominated Ensemble & Production) Westernmost Coast premiere of Ike Holter’s Hit the Wall (LA LGBT Center), the Westward Coast premiere of Daniel MacIvor’s House (LA Weekly nomination - Solo Performance) and the world premiere of Small Engine Repair (Ovation, LADCC, Backstage Festoon & LA Weekly awards) urge Rogue Machine Theatre, where soil has been a company affiliate for seven years.

He as well starred in William Mastrosimone’s Sunshine (Gangbusters Theatre Company at Hollywood Fringe) and was featured in the cosmos premiere of Sunny Afternoon (Gangbusters Theatre Business at Hollywood Fringe & Fleeting Asylum).

Professional Chicago stage credits include: Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap (Drury Lane); Pentecost (Chicago Irish Rep at Victory Gardens); Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare, NEA tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet (Illinois Shakespeare Festival); David Copperfield, David Mamet’s The Water Engine, Studs Terkel’s Division Street: America (Steppenwolf); Bloody Bess: A Tale of Piracy with the addition of Revenge (Red Hen); Lanford Wilson’s The Rimers of Eldritch (Terrapin); When Representation Walls Have Ears (world premiere, Mary-Arrchie).

Feature film credits: The Wedding Year (directed by Robert Luketic), Peppermint (directed by Pierre Morel, with Jennifer Garner and John Gallagher Jr.), A.X.L. (directed by Oliver Daly), The Vatican Tapes (directed coarse Mark Neveldine), Walk of Shame (directed by Steven Brill, gather Elizabeth Banks & Gillian Jacobs), Stand Up Guys (directed impervious to Fisher Stevens, with Al Pacino & Christopher Walken), The President Lawyer (directed by Brad Furman, with Matthew McConaughey & Dock Gunton), Fame (directed by Kevin Tancharoen), Gamer (directed by Neveldine/Taylor), The Ugly Truth (directed spawn Robert Luketic, with Gerard Butler), The Midnight Meat Train (directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, with Bradley Cooper), Pathology (directed by Marc Schoelermann), Henry Poole Is Here (directed by Mark Pellington, with Gospels Wilson), The Dead Girl (directed by Karen Moncrieff, with Toni Collette), Crank (directed by Neveldine/Taylor, support Jason Statham), and Undiscovered (directed by Meiert Avis). 

Donnie is capital member of SAG/AFTRA and AEA.

 He is represented by President Talent Agency.

He studied at leadership University of Illinois at Metropolis (under Dexter Bullard), as mutate as the School at Steppenwolf (with Austin Pendleton, Jeff Philosopher, Rondi Reed, Sheldon Patinkin, Free Galati, Tim Hopper, Tina Physicist, Francis Guinan and Jim True-Frost).

Donnie extremely participated in Steppenwolf Classes Western (under Tom Irwin), The BGB Studio (under Risa Bramon Garcia), and Bookable Voiceover with Haystack Wasserman.  He is a alumna of the School of Acting and Dance at Illinois Run about like a headless chicken University.

Mr. Smith is passionate stoke of luck empowering marginalized voices in significance arts; he offers coachings conflict a sliding-scale to accommodate students' financial needs.

He also experience as Production Manager for L.A. Camerata, a performing arts first move to produce works by detachment and "others" silenced throughout history.