James Dallas Smith is an actor/writer/musician with Six Nations Mohawk of the Grand River and Scottish heritage. Although born in Brantford, he was raised just up the road in Port Elgin. J.D. has been performing on stage & screen for over twenty years. For several seasons he was a cast member of the groundbreaking and now cult OMNI tv series, “Metropia”. Selected performing credits include: Where the Blood Mixes, Almighty Voice & His Wife (Dora Nomination for Outstanding Performance), Our Town, The Time of Your Life, King Lear, (Soulpepper), This is How We Got Here, Ipperwash (Native Earth Performing Arts), The Berlin Blues, Ipperwash (Blyth), The Drawer Boy, Proof (Centaur), MacBeth (Great Southwest Shakespeare Company), Cottagers & Indians (Theatre on the Ridge), Hard Times for These Times (NAC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It (Driftwood Theatre), Danny, King of the Basement (MTYP), Hayfever, Anne of Green Gables (Thousand Islands Playhouse) and Heart of a Distant Tribe (CIT/Equity Showcase Theatre). Upcoming: Honour Beat at Thousand Islands Playhouse (Fall 2022), The Secret to Good Tea at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (Spring 2023).