TUCKER SMALLWOOD was commissioned an Army Infantry Officer in June ‘68, served as a TAC Officer at Ft. Benning, Ga. for six months, then attended Benning’s Jump School, MATA at Ft Bragg’s JFK/SWC and Vietnamese Language School at Ft. Bliss, Texas. In 1969, he commanded MAT-36, a five-man Advisory Team to Vietnamese militia in the Mekong Delta. After recovering from his injuries at Walter Reed, he taught patrolling, ambush, escape and evasion to Engineer OCS Candidates at Ft. Belvoir, Va. He then resigned his commission in 1970 and moved to NYC to study acting, first with Sanford Meisner and later with Stella Adler.

For the past 40 years, he has worked on and off Broadway in more than 40 theatrical productions, including five plays at the Public Theater in NY and regional productions around the country. In LA, he’s performed at the Met, Taper, Fresno State, Cast, Odyssey and Rogue Machine Theaters. Tucker has appeared in more than 30 feature films (including CONTACT and THE COTTON CLUB) and guest starred in hundreds of hours of episodic television. He is the author and narrator of the book, RETURN TO EDEN, an anthology of essays recounting his experiences as an Army Advisor, his life as an artist contending with PTSD and his return to Vietnam in 2004. He is also an accomplished blues guitarist/singer, devoted to veteran’s advocacy and a member of Rogue Machine Theatre Group. His website address is Tuckersmallwood.com.