Ronald "Smokey" Stevens

Ronald “Smokey” Stevens is a native of Washington, D.C., "Smokey" is 
celebrating over 35 years in the entertainment business. He began his professional 
career at the DC Black Repertory Company in 1971. After five years of professional 
training and performing, Smokey landed a job in his first Broadway musical, 
"Bubbling Brown Sugar." His other Broadway credits include performances in 
"Dreamgirls," "Ain't Misbehavin'," "One Mo' Time," and his own critically acclaimed 
Broadway tribute to the Black Vaudeville Era "Rollin' in the T.O.B.A."

His film credits include the role of 'a dancing crow' opposite Michael 
Jackson in "The Wiz," "Times Square," and "The Cotton Club." His TV credits 
include appearances on "The Midnight Special," a "Bob Hope Special," where he 
performed with Lucille Ball, and on "The Jerry Lewis MD Telethon" in Las Vegas.

Smokey has traveled and performed nationally and internationally working 
with such showbiz greats as Cab Calloway, Diana Ross, Avon Long and was tutored in 
tap dancing by the legendary Charles Honi Coles. Stevens also conceived and 
choreographed "Shoot Me While I'm Happy," produced by Victory Gardens Theater in 
Chicago. He also produced "The Sho 'Nuff' Variety Revue" at the Village Gate in 
New York City, as well as "The Rising Stars Cabaret" at the Silver Lining. Stevens 
also served as co-creator and director of the Children's Theater of Harlem.
Smokey recently directed and choreographed "The Black Nativity," and 
"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," at Owens Community College in 
Toledo, OH. He is in the throes of writing his first book, "The History of Black 
Entertainment in America from the Beginning."