Poetic

VERSATILE was critically recieved at the 2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival with honors - Diversity Scholarship Recipient - Best Solo Performance Nominee - Best of Broadwater Award - Pick of the Fringe Honorable Mention

Now what? You've graduated from a great university. You have 15 cents to your name. You're a brown Latina from a low-income household. There's a lot stacked against you and it's all hitting at once. Let's unpack because we just moved back home and the American Dream looks different from this angle.

****OFFICIAL WINNER OF THE HOLLYWOOD ENCORE PRODUCERS’ AWARD **** Pulse of the City is an electrifying glimpse into the lives that run through an, “every-mans city”, but what happens when stresses arise and we are pushed to far?

WINNNER: BEST INTERNATIONAL SHOW 2021, PICK OF THE FRINGE 2021 ENCORE AWARD 2021, BEST DRAMA THE TVOLUTION AWARD 2021 Who’d like to start a journey knowing that there’s no destination to reach? Just wandering and dreaming of a nice place where you can soothe your own wounds… in silence.

Lorinda Hawkins Smith’s compelling solo performance "Justice? Or... Just Me?" intricately remixes incisive text and soulful vocal rhythms and textures to examine a Black woman’s encounter with law enforcement, domestic violence and her interracial marriage to a White man.