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Tommy Smith

TOMMY SMITH

  (1978 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  

Tommy is a New York based playwright and director. His plays include the Wife, White Hot, Sextet, Air Conditioning, Sunrise, April's Subject, Caravan Man (with Gabriel Kahane) and Dig Nation, Demon Dreams & the Tale (with Michael McQuilken). His work has been seen at HERE Arts Center, the Flea Theatre, the Ontological Theatre, 78th Street Theatre, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Huntington Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, among others; his work has been produced internationally in Prague, Edinburgh, Athens and Montreal. He is a two-time winner of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize for emerging writers (2005 and 2006), a graduate of the Juilliard School's Playwriting Program, a recipient of the 2008 E.S.T. Sloan Grant and the 2008 Page73 Playwriting Fellowship. Publications include White Hot in the 2008 New York Theatre Review and Streak in "Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays", printed by Vintage. As a director, Tommy co-created (with Reggie Watts) the Theatre piece Disinformation, which has been seen at the 2008 Under the RADAr Theatre Festival at the Public Theatre, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's 2007 Time-Based Art Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Painted Bride (Philadelphia) and the Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh). their new work, Transition, premiered at the 2008 PICA TBA Festival.

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         +30NYC         Air Conditioning         April's Subject         Break-Up, The         Caravan Man         Day In Dig Nation, A         Demon Dreams         Dutch A/V         Extropia         Fireman         Ghostlight         Lotus Eaters EP         Pigeon         President of the United States Blows His Brains Out         PTSD         Radio Play         Sextet         Streak         Sunrise         Tale, The         Tenant, The         Welcome to Flavor Country         White Hot         Wife, The         Zero

+30NYC

Synopsis:
A sustainable project, this evening of short plays examines how our actions today will directly affect our lives in 30 years. As per the mission of Red Fern theatre Company, that each production is paired with a philanthropy whose work relates to the social themes of the play, +30NYC is paired with Material For the Arts.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Bekah Brunstetter, Victor Ismael Cazares, Christine Evans, Michael John Garces, Ashlin Halfnight, Mac Rodgers, Tommy Smith

1st Produced:
Center Stage, NY    06 Mar 2010

Organisations:
Red Fern Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Short Play

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Air Conditioning

Synopsis:
A rich family invites a poor family to dinner; the poor family kills rich family and overtakes household.

Notes:
Workshopped At 2006 Eugene O'neill National Playwrights Conference. Wendy Goldberg, Artistic Director.

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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April's Subject

Synopsis:
An amnesiac housewife begins remembering her disturbing past.

Notes:
Developed At ACT theatre, 2004. Kurt Beattie, Artistic Director.

1st Produced:
Theatre Schmeater (Seattle)    2004

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Break-Up, The

Synopsis:
A man falls in love with his drug dealer, with disastrous results.

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Caravan Man

Synopsis:
A country music retelling of Muhammad's rise to power in pre-Islamic Arabia.

Notes:
by Tommy Smith. Music/Lyrics by Gabriel Kahane. Developed via LeapFrog program At Williamstown. Roger Rees, Artistic Director.

1st Produced:
Williamstown Theatre Company    2007

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Day In Dig Nation, A

Synopsis:
A mash-up of media, sound and live performance, this one-person extravaganza follows Rex, a man so consumed by technology that he forgets how to communicate with actual people.

Notes:
Co-written And performed by Michael McQuilken And Tommy Smith. Also performed At Prague theatre Festival (2008) And PS 122 (New York, 2008). Workshopped At 78th Street theatre Lab (NYC, 2006) And Re-bar (Seattle, 2006).

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Organisations:
Flying Carpet Theatre Company

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Genre:
Solo multimedia performance

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Demon Dreams

Synopsis:
A Japanese Hip Hop play about humanity's struggle between good and evil.

Notes:
Music by Michael McQuilken

1st Produced:
Williamstown Theatre Company    2006

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Genre:
children's Musical

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dutch A/V

Synopsis:
This is part of the Under the Radar Festival. Infused with sonic landscapes performed live by Reggie Watts, Dutch A/V is a live-edited environmental film that seeks to replicate the first hand experience of being a flaneur in another city. Reggie - with collaborator/playwright Tommy Smith and Seattle journalist Brendan Kiley - traveled to Holland and shot over 26 hours of footage, exploring its cities using spy-glasses that recorded everything they saw and heard. Dutch A/V seeks to re-present this footage using projection technology and stereophonic sound, turning the interior space into portals to a foreign landscape thousands of miles away.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Created By: Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith

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Genre:
55 min Piece

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Extropia

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Fireman

Synopsis:
Set in the 1990 American suburbs, Firemen explores an unthinkable love relationship between a troubled teenager and his unlikely new girlfriend.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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Organisations:
Magic Futurebox

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ghostlight

Synopsis:
After the performance of an unrelated play, a woman materializes on the set and starts speaking, illuminated only by the ghost light.

Notes:
world premiere of GHOSTLIGHT at the Bank Street Theater (NYC) in association with LAByrinth Theater Company and The Playwrights of New York, March 2015, on the set of Lucy Thurbers THE INSURGENTS.

1st Produced:
Bank Street Theater (NYC)    Mar 2015

Organisations:
LAByrinth Theater Company

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Music:
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Genre:
piece

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lotus Eaters EP

Synopsis:
Not a conventional performance, LOTUS EATERS EP - an audio-fueled extended play - is a hallucinatory sonic experience about loneliness, depravity, and the intrinsic failure of all human contact.

Notes:
Direction and text by Tommy Smith. Original music and soundscapes by Reggie Watts.

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Organisations:
3B Development Series

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Genre:
piece

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  voices

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Pigeon

Synopsis:
Leon Theremin father of electronic music has an affair with a black American ballerina

Notes:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-0822225881

Music:
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President of the United States Blows His Brains Out

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PTSD

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of the Marathon of One-Act Plays

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Genre:
One Act

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Radio Play

Synopsis:
Modelled after radio programs of yesteryear, Radio Play gathers a group of actors, musicians and sound-effects artists to create a surreal sonic entertainment. Songs, stories and soundscapes collide in a comedic mash-up of non-temporal quasi-political pop-cultural tropes.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Created By: Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith

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Genre:
piece

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Sextet

Synopsis:
A choral play about the tragic love lives of composers Tchaikovsky, Schoenberg and Gesualdo.

Notes:
Developed by the Flea theatre, New York, 2007. Jim Simpson, Artistic Director; Carol Ostrow, Managing Director. Also developed via fellowship with Page 73 Productions, New York, 2008. Asher Richelli And Liz Jones, Artistic Directors.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Streak

Synopsis:
A baseball player sells his soul to the devil.

Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Laugh Lines". Eric Lane & Nina Shengold, Editors., 2007   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sunrise

Synopsis:
A brooding couple encounters a mysterious stranger who threatens to destroy their marriage.

Notes:
Also performed At Ontological theatre (NYC), Playtime (NYC), LARK (NYC), Union Garage (Seattle).

1st Produced:
Theatre St. Catherine; Montreal, Quebec    2005

Organisations:
Mackwell Productions

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tale, The

Synopsis:
A rollicking musical retelling of the major greek myths.

Notes:
Music by Michael McQuilken. Workshopped At 2006 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Wendy Goldberg, Artistic Director.

1st Produced:
Sacramento Theatre Company    2006

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
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Genre:
children's Musical

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Tenant, The

Synopsis:
Set in Paris and inspired by the novElla that was famously adapted into a film by Roman Polanski, the Tenant is a thrilling, haunting and grotesquely hilarious investigation into the relationship between who we are and where we live. When Monsieur Trelkovsky rents a room recently vacated by a woman who fell from her window, he soon finds his world changing in bizarre ways. Haunted by images of the previous tenant's apparent suicide and terrorized by his new neighbors, Trelkovsky begins a slow descent into paranoia and delirium. Staged and installed by Woodshed Collective over five building stories in the historic West Park Presbyterian Church parish house, the Tenant features an original script by a team of New York's brightest up-and-coming playwrights - Bekah Brunstetter, Sarah Burgess, Paul Cohen, Dylan Dawson, Steven Levenson, and Tommy Smith. Each playwright has written the story of a separate denizen of this Parisian tenement, and collaborated with Woodshed Collective to create a living building.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Bekah Brunstetter, Sarah Burgess, Paul Cohen, Dylan Dawson, Steven Levenson, And Tommy Smith

1st Produced:
West-Park Presbyterian Church, 86th Street And Amsterdam AVenue, NY    24 Aug 2011

Organisations:
Woodshed Collective

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Welcome to Flavor Country

Synopsis:
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White Hot

Synopsis:
A domestic potboiler about the tragedy of love and hopelessness of marriage.

Notes:
Developed by the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab 2007. Sarah Benson, Artistic Director; Jason Grote & Maria Goyanes, Chair Heads.

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Organisations:
Leigh Goldenberg

1st Published:
in New York Theatre Review 2008. Brook Stowe, Editor. Foreward by Craig Lucas., 2008   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Wife, The

Synopsis:
follows a young Hasidic woman who befriends her gentrifying neighbors-and what starts as an innocent relationship quickly spirals into a series of events that unravel their entire urban community. the Wife is a darkly comic take on the tragedy of culture

Notes:
Developed via fellowship with Page 73 Productions, New York, 2008. Asher Richelli And Liz Jones, Artistic Directors.

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Zero

Synopsis:
-

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Organisations:
34th Marathon of One Act Plays

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Genre:
one act

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