Tommy Smith is a New York based playwright. His plays include SEXTET (upcoming, Washington Ensemble Theatre; Roger Benington, director), THE WIFE (upcoming, IRT Theater; May Adrales, director), WHITE HOT (produced at Here Arts Center; May Adrales, director), PTSD (produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre; Billy Carden, director), THE BREAK-UP (produced at Flea Theater; Sherri Kronfeld, director), BEAUTIFUL NIGHT (commissioned by E.S.T.; Evan Cabnet, director), AIR CONDITIONING (selected for Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference; Steve Cosson, director), GOODNIGHT MECCA (produced at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Gabriel Kahane, composer & lyricist; Kip Fagan, director), among others. His work has also appeared at PS 122, Yale Cabaret, The Ontological Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, A Contemporary Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, The Huntington Theatre; internationally, he has been produced in Prague, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Montreal and Athens. He is a two-time winner of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize, a recipient of the E.S.T. Sloan Grant, a winner of the Page73 Productions Playwriting Fellowship and a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group at Primary Stages. Publications include WHITE HOT in the 2008 New York Theatre Review and STREAK in “Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays”, printed by Vintage. He is a graduate of the playwriting program at The Juilliard School. Tommy co-created (with Reggie Watts) the theatre piece DISINFORMATION, which played at the Under The Radar Theatre Festival at The Public Theatre, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh) and ICA (Boston). Tommy won the MAP Fund Award and Creative Capital Award for their follow-up show TRANSITION, which played at the PICA: TBA Festival, Under The Radar and On The Boards. Other collaborations include RADIO PLAY (Ars Nova, Redhouse, Bumbershoot, IRT Theater), OCCURRENCE (Galapagos, The Tank, Ars Nova, Portland’s Leftbank, ICA) and DUTCH A/V (IRT Theater).
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