Tom Smith (playwright)
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Tom Smith is an American
playwright
, theatre director, and associate 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), 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.... Unpublished plays receiving productions include Aunt Raini, which received a reading at Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton and its world premiere at No Strings Theatre Company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.In January, 2009, Kendall Hunt Publishing published his book on long and short form improvisation, The Other Blocking: Teaching and Performing Improvisation.
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; and Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, theatre director, and associate 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), Gray, and Marguerita's Secret Diary in addition to edited versions of Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....
, The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy of Errors is one of only two of Shakespeare's...
, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1590 or 1591. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, and is often seen as his first tentative steps in laying out some of the themes and tropes with which he would later deal in more...
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.... 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.In January, 2009, Kendall Hunt Publishing published his book on long and short form improvisation, The Other Blocking: Teaching and Performing Improvisation.
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; and Las Cruces, New Mexico.