Cotter Smith

Teaches at Primary Stages ESPA

New York theater credits include the Broadway productions of NEXT FALL by Geoffrey Nauffts, Wendy Wasserstein’s AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER, and Lanford Wilson’s BURN THIS, as well as many Off-Broadway productions including THE TEMPEST for Shakespeare in the Park (Public Theatre), Horton Foote’s THE OLD FRIENDS (Signature Theatre), COCK (American Premiere of the Olivier Award-winning Royal Court production), DREAMS OF FLYING (Atlantic Theatre), SIDE EFFECTS (MCC Theatre), KIN (Playwrights Horizons), HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE (1998 Pulitzer Prize, Vineyard Theatre), A SOLDIER’S PLAY (1982 Pulitzer Prize, Negro Ensemble Company), THE BLOOD KNOT (Roundabout Theatre), and many new American plays as a 10-year member of the Circle Repertory Company. He is also a founding member of the Matrix Theatre Company in Los Angeles and was in the National Tour of the Tony Award-winning play ART with Judd Hirsch.

His screen work ranges from his debut as Robert Kennedy in the miniseries BLOOD FEUD to his roles as the President in X2: X-MEN UNITED and the prosecutor of Dr. Kevorkian, portrayed by Al Pacino, in Barry Levinson’s HBO film YOU DON’T KNOW JACK. He has also appeared in numerous television shows along the way, from the early days of HILL STREET BLUES to the more recent MADAM SECRETARY, THE AMERICANS, PERSON OF INTEREST, THE FOLLOWING, and THE GOOD WIFE.

He is currently the Department Head of the MFA Acting Program at The New School for Drama and spent several years teaching in the Conservatory Program at The Stella Adler Studio.