Colin W Smith is a graduate of the Bachelor of Creative Industries (Drama) program at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and a two-decade-plus veteran of the Brisbane (Yuggera country) theatre scene.

He was a Core Ensemble member with the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble between 2007 and 2019, performing with the company in numerous productions including Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s Briefs or Let’s Kill All The Lawyers, Metamorphoses, Food of Love: A Shakespeare Cabaret, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Stuart, The Tempest, Hamlet, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

He was a Matilda Award winner in the Best Lead Male Actor category for his work in Queensland Theatre’s An Octoroon (2017), and received nominations in the Best Supporting Male Actor category for his work in Queensland Theatre’s The Odd Couple (2015), and in the Aruga Best Ensemble category for being a member of the five-actor team of Belloo Creative’s Boy, Lost (2022). He was also a finalist for Best Australian Actor at the 2023 AFIN International Film Festival for his work in the short film Trapped by Third In Line Productions.

His other theatre credits include: Queensland Theatre – Black Diggers, Twelfth Night, Nearer The Gods, Our Town, The Sunshine Club, and As You Like It; La Boite Theatre Company – A Streetcar Named Desire, Romeo & Juliet, From Darkness, and Closer; Queensland Ballet – Vis-à-Vis: Moving Stories; Ensemble Theatre – Black Cockatoo; Elbow Room – What I’m Here For; THAT Production Company – Così; and Redcliffe Independent Theatre – Noises Off.

He is a proud Australian Aboriginal of the Jagera people, and is a member of the MEAA’s Equity Diversity Committee.