“When comic actress Yeardley Smith got tired of hearing herself complain about her erratic fame and fickle fortune, she decided to write a show about it. Best known as the voice of Lisa Simpson, the 8-year-old baritone-sax player and improvisational poet on Fox-TV’s ‘The Simpsons,’ Smith has been acting professionally since she was a teenager. She made her Broadway debut at age 19 in Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Real Thing’ and won an Emmy Award for ‘The Simpsons.’ While her movie career hasn’t been stellar – or even stable, Smith points out – she is a familiar enough figure on the big and small screens that a pharmacist once discussed her psychotropic prescription loudly before asking her for Lisa Simpson’s autograph. Teenage girls recognize her in shopping malls, says Smith – and exclaim to one another: ‘I can’t believe she went out looking like that!’ Read More >>>
