Derek Smith is an actor, best known for his roles on stage. Broadway credits include his debut as Timon/Poet/Representative of Varro's in Timon of Athens and later as Dobchinsky in The Government Inspector (Lyceum Theatre); his OBIE Award-winning performance as Tartaglia in The Green Bird (Cort Theatre); Patrice Bombelles in Ring Round the Moon and Black Jack Bouvier/Jean Kennedy/Frank Sinatra/Richard Nixon/Oleg Cassini/Abraham Zapruder in Jackie (Belasco Theatre); Brother Alfred in Getting and Spending (Helen Hayes Theatre); and Scar in The Lion King (New Amsterdam/Minskoff Theatres).

Off-Broadway theatre credits include Vasques in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Duke on 42nd Street); Gustav in The Dance of Death and Man/Doctor/Silva/Little Man in Ten by Tennessee (Lucille Lortel Theatre); the Bastard in King John and Reynaldo Romero in Hyde in Hollywood (American Place Theatre); Danny/Tony in Dark Rapture (Signature Theatre); Tom/Phylliss/Leslie in Sylvia (N.Y.C. Center Stage); and Rick in Cruise Control (WPA Theatre).