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ALENA SMITH (1980 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency, NY |
MFA, Yale School of Drama; ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting.
Plays by Alena Smith
Alice Eat Your Words | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale Cabaret, New Haven, CT | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81248 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Any number of variations of doubling and cross-gendering of parts is possible amongst the roughly 20 characters | |||||
Synopsis: | Words, words, words. Words bewitch us, bamboozle us, and belittle us. But words are the only tools we have to fight back. When Alice, a teenage poet, is sentenced to her bedroom by her over-protective father, she falls down a rabbit hole of sorts into the heart of today's pop-cultural language game. Once trapped inside "the TV in her head," Alice has to fight for a way out of all the nonsense. Along the way she encounters a wonderland of odd characters and cartoons, including a chauvinistic game-show host, a posh political commenter, and a wacky lady with an alligator purse. | |||||
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And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt | ||
| 1st Produced: | New New Plays, Yale Summer Cabaret | 2004 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115418 | |||
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Apple of Discord | ||
| 1st Produced: | Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philly, PA | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81249 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Four goddesses compete over the golden apple - re-telling the story in their own words. A short play of four monologues | |||||
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Bad Guys, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | McGinn Cazale Theatre | 22 May 2012 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #140237 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Five childhood buddies reunite on a late summer afternoon for some beer, grilling and weed, but deep within their friendship lurk ghosts that rock the patio beneath them. Bitingly comic and ruthlessly recognizable, this is the story of a generation at war with itself over what it means to man up. This production is part of Second Stage's Uptown Series. | |||||
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Day Such As Today At The Pavillion | ||
| 1st Produced: | Riverside Park, New York | 2007 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115419 | |||
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It or Her | ||
| 1st Produced: | Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philly, PA | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81250 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | In the basement of a suburban house hides a man and his incredible collection of figurines. Like a mad scientist of patterns and paranoias, he plays with his objects, fervently hoping to discover their secret - what he calls "the ultimate arrangement" - before his hideout is invaded, and his own dark secret is revealed | |||||
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Lacy Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | A.R.T. Institute, Cambridge, MA | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81251 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | The Lacy Project was also produced in the 2007 Ice Factory festival at the Ohio Theatre, NYC | |||||
Synopsis: | Her mother's photographs turned Lacy into an icon of childhood innocence and beauty. Now, on the night of her 22nd birthday, Lacy has to navigate between image and reality, sex and friendship, self-indulgence and responsibility. This wild tragicomedy presents an incisive portrait of a young woman held captive by her own childhood, and a vivid picture of a generation unable to grow up. | |||||
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Leftovers | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2007 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115420 | |||
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Modern Life of Karen Bollaert | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Festival, Philadelphia | 2005 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115421 | |||
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Plucker | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southwark Playhouse, Shipwright Yard, (Corner of Tooley St. & Bermondsey St.), London SE1 2TF >>> | 15 Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | NYLon Production | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115277 | |||
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Synopsis: | Ever since Alexis, a young composer, moved in with her boyfriend in way uptown Manhattan, her pet parrot has been having an anxiety attack. What's worse, Lee, the girl she's been flirting with, just showed up uninvited to dinner - and Julian and Thomasina, The Perfect Couple, are due over any minute. And is it really a good idea to start downing shots of a so-called truth serum? Plucker is an old-school farce about a new generation dealing with the anxieties of commitment and co-habitation | |||||
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Sacrifices, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81252 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Sacrifices takes place over the course of a family's first day on a Caribbean cruise. Justin, the family's son, just graduated from a prestigious art school, is an intensely ambitious and competitive young man, rabid for money and fame in the booming contemporary art market. Eager to head straight for New York in pursuit of his ambitious dreams, Justin is dismayed when his parents reveal that they have no plans to continue supporting him financially, now that he's finished with school. Over the course of this day on the cruise, The Sacrifices tracks a series of negotiations, confrontations, and revelations amongst the members of this liberal, bourgeois Jewish family. While at first their conflicts seem to arise from petty financial disputes, deeper sources of discord emerge. This is a family struggling with the anxieties of getting older, of reaching the end of a life together as a nuclear unit, and they cling to each other just as much as they try to let go. | |||||
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Saturnalia in Poughkeepsie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale School of Drama, New Haven, CT | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #81253 | |||
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Synopsis: | The play takes place at a sleepy bookstore, on the day of winter solstice in upstate New York. Nell, the salesclerk, is trapped with only her timid boss and a couple of crazy customers for company. She teeters on the borderline between inertia and creeping insanity. Just when she gives up hope that anything exciting will ever happen to her, three unexpected visitors explode onto the scene-all refugees from a glamorous and mysterious party in the bookstore bathroom. Between a libidinous Anne of Green Gables, a lascivious Philip Roth, and a prank-playing Sylvia Plath, not to mention a potent cocktail of mind-altering substances, Nell's life suddenly gets really thrilling-especially when she begins to suspect that her life isn't real at all. | |||||
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