CLAYTON SMITH
Writer, Director, Actor
Clayton Dean Smith is a New York-based writer-director and an actor in theater, film and television. His first film, "Off Track Betty," a 16mm short shot on the Lower East Side, played the festival circuit for two years and has been distributed internationally. It won the Best Short Audience Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival, a Jury Award at the Tallgrass Film Festival, and the 2018 Kodak Award for Best Work Shot on Film at QWFF. Watch it at offtrackbettythemovie.com. His second short, "Too Late," was an end of season project for Filmshop and has won 3 awards on the festival circuit. His current project, "Kansas, 1989," is in post-production: see stuff at www.kansas1989.com
Clayton has garnered critical acclaim as an actor (The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out NY). Recent projects include "The Artist's Wife" with Lena Olin, the award-winning short "Seeking Jack Tripper," and episodes of "Law & Order: SVU", "Billions," "Louie," "30 Rock," and more. He serves as a Vice Chair of Midtown Manhattan's Community Board Five.