Signature Theatre is getting in the Anna Deavere Smith business. As Deadline reports, the Off Broadway venue has appointed Smith its playwright in residence for the 2019-20 season and is staging two of her previous plays as revivals. Signature also announced that it will be producing a new Smith play in an upcoming season.

Smith’s residency begins October 22 with the revival of 1992’s “Fires in the Mirror,” which explores the ’91 racial tensions in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, sparked by the deaths of a black boy and an Orthodox Jewish scholar.

Performances of Smith’s “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992″ will kick off on April 28, 2020. Taibi Magar will direct Smith’s ’93 work about Rodney King’s violent beating at the hands of LAPD officers and the LA riots the officers’ acquittal inspired.

“I’m delighted to be bringing Anna Deavere Smith to Signature next season,” said Artistic Director Paige Evans. “Anna revolutionized the theatrical form with her groundbreaking documentary work, and it will be fascinating to see how these two seminal plays resonate today.”

Signature will also feature new works by Katori Hall and Dominique Morisseau as well as a New York debut from Lauren Yee next season.

Known for writing and performing in one-woman shows centering on social justice, Smith has received a MacArthur Fellowship, two Drama Desk Awards, two Tony nods, and a Pulitzer nomination. A production of her play “Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education” was broadcast on HBO last year. Smith’s recent acting credits include “Black-ish,” “For The People,” and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”