Charles (Chuck) Smith (March 7, 1938 - Present), graduated January, 1956 from Parker High.He is the resident director of The Goodman Theatre in Chicago and an associate producer of Legacy Productions, a Chicago-based touring company. Goodman credits include the Chicago premiers Proof and The Story; The world premiers of By the Music of the Spheres and The Gift Horse; James Balswin's The Amen Corner,Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun; Peal Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky;August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; the 1993-1995 productions of A Christmas Carol; Crumbs From the Table of Joy; Vivisections from a Blown Mind;and The Meeting. He served as dramaturg for the world-premiere production of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean at the Goodman. He Directed Knock Me a Kiss at Victory Gardens Theater, where his directing credits include Master Harold and the Boys, Home, Dame Lorraine and Eden,for which he received a Jeff Award nomination for best direction. He won a Chicago Emmy Award as associate producter/theatrial director for the NBC teleplay Crime of Innocence and was theatrical diretor for the Emmy Award-winning Fast Break to Glory and the Emmy Award-nominated The Martin Luther King Suite.Mr. Smith is a 2003 inductee into the Chicago State University Gwendolyn Brooks Center's Literary Hall of Fame and a 2001 Chicago Tribune Chicagoan of the Year. He is the proud reciepient of the 1982 Paul Robeson Award and the 1997 Award of Merit presented by the Black Theater Alliance of Chicago. He is currently a board member of Sullivan House, the League of Chicago Theatres and the African American Arts Alliance of Chicago.