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An Octoroon's New Leading Man Austin Smith on Melodrama, Performing in Whiteface, and Why Humor is Our Best Weapon Against Injustice by Emily Gawlak

For his theatrical debut in New York City, Austin Smith is hitting the ground running in a big way. His lead role in An Octoroon at Theatre for a New Audience encompasses not one but three characters, including a portrayal of the playwright, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, as well as both the dashing hero and the comic villain of Jacobs-Jenksins’ play-within-a-play adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melod…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:52PM on February 19, 2015

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