[FAC] AN Evening with Tucker Smallwood

[Pamela Dyer]

Theatre Arts Department 
presents
an evening with 
Tucker Smallwood

Actor, Author, Vietnam Veteran 

Reading and Discussing his book 
Return to Eden

Saturday, February 21st
7 p.m.   Free
Woods Theatre, Speech Arts Building
Reception and book signing to follow

Limited Seating
R.S.V.P. to 278.5109 or pamd at csufresno.edu by February 18th 

ABOUT TUCKER SMALLWOOD

 Born in Washington, D.C. his early years included living for two years in Greece and two 
more in college in Munich, Germany.  He received a BA in Speech/Television Production, from 
the University of Maryland.  He began directing television and was then drafted into the Army 
in 1967.

 Following his training, his service as an Advisor to Vietnamese troops in the Mekong Delta 
and his recovery from wounds received, he resigned his commission and moved to New York 
to study acting.  He studied under Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler.  After being cast in the 
soap opera Somerset, he was required to leave school, because students were not allowed to 
work professionally. 

 He had an enduring relationship at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, as well as other roles in 
Broadway and regional theater productions.  Additionally, he filmed more than 1000 
television and radio commercials and PSA’s during that decade.  During the ‘80’s, he 
appeared in The Cotton Club and Presumed Innocent.

 In 1991, he moved to Los Angeles and began his work in prime time television.  After several 
years of guest starring roles on dramas and sit-coms, he chanced into the universe of 
science fiction with roles in the series SPACE: Above and Beyond, The X-Files and Babylon 5, 
as well as in the films CONTACT and DEEP IMPACT.  Theatrically, he performed in several 
productions for the Mark Taper, Cast Theater and Odyssey Theater.

 Tucker spent a season as a Xindi diplomat for Star Trek: Enterprise. He's generated 
controversy as God on the Sarah Silverman Program and the film Black Dynamite that 
premiered at Sundance in January '09.

 Following his return to Vietnam in 2004, in the late summer of 2006, he published an 
anthology of essays entitled RETURN TO EDEN 

 The listing of all of his shows and characters can be accessed by typing his name (Tucker 
Smallwood) into IMDb.com.    

Pamela Dyer
Business & Promotions Manager
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Fresno
559-278-7512
559-278-7215 - FAX
www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts