Melissa Yandell Smith Dies: ‘Nomadland’ Actress, American Conservatory Theatre Executive Was 64
Melissa Yandell Smith, who helped steer San Francisco’s esteemed American Conservatory Theatre for 25 years and made a notable late-career film debut opposite her longtime friend Frances McDormand in the Oscar-nominated 2020 film Nomadland, died of cancer September 7 at her home in San Francisco. She was 64.