Tom Smith (playwright)

Tom Smith (born in 1969 in Rochelle, Illinois) is an American playwright, theatre director, and professor of theatre arts. Originally trained as an improvisational comedian, Smith founded Walla Walla TheatreSports in 1988.

Smith's published plays include Drinking Habits, The Odyssey, The Pathmaker, Dangerous (a contemporary gay treatment of Les Liaisons Dangereuses),[1] Gray, and Marguerita's Secret Diary in addition to edited versions of Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Love's Labours Lost. Additionally, he has many plays published by YouthPLAYS, including Johnny and Sally Ann: the true-life tall-tales of Johnny Appleseed and Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, which ran for 2 years with LA's traveling company Enrichment Works; A Christmas Carol, ESL, The Wild and Wacky Rhyming Stories of Miss Henrietta Humpledowning and What Comes Around....[2] Unpublished plays receiving productions include Aunt Raini, which received a reading at Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton and its world premiere at No Strings Theatre Company in Las Cruces, NM; comedic abridgements of the complete history of Las Cruces, NM; and various 10-minute plays.[3]In January, 2009, Kendall Hunt Publishing published his book on long and short form improvisation, The Other Blocking: Teaching and Performing Improvisation.[4]

His plays have won national and regional awards, including the 2004 Robert J. Pickering Award for Excellence in Playwriting, the 2004 ATHE Playworks Award, the Orlin R. Corey Outstanding Regional Playwright Award, the Richard Odlin Award, a Seattle Footlights Award, and the Doña Ana Arts Council Newcomer's Award.

Smith has directed plays staged in Kansas City, Missouri; Seattle, Washington; Creede, Colorado; Forestburgh, NY; and Las Cruces, New Mexico.[5]

References

  1. ↑ All Over the Map: Dangerous in San Francisco, Men of Tortuga in Chicago, and Around the World in Eighty Days in Cape Cod.Feature on TheaterMania.com
  2. ↑ YouthPLAY Authors
  3. ↑ TomSmithPlaywright.com - Resume
  4. ↑ Kendall Hunt Publishing
  5. ↑ NMSU PANORAMA - Summer 2006 =- Blending Education with Drama
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