Elaine Smith Writes

And Directs (occasionally)

ELAINE SMITH
Director
917-902-7210
elaine@elainesmithwrites.com
Directing Eperience
Director

The Most Important American Playwright
Since Tennessee Williams
Abingdon Theatre Co./
Judith Anderson Theatre
Director Fannie & Camille Samuel French 1-Act Festival (semi-finalist)
Co-Director On the Line The Lab
Director A Choice of Heroes Pulse Ensemble Theatre
Director Accepting Applause WPP Tandem Acts
Director 'night, Mother Pulse Ensemble Theatre
Director Grandmother's House Immigrants' Theatre Project
Director Call of the Klunni Ubu Rep/The Field
Director Hard Alee Alice's Fourth Floor
Director Patriarch Village Gate
Director Relative Strangers La MaMa La Galleria & WPP
Director Well Done Poets La MaMa La Galleria
Director Bread La MaMa La Galleria & WPP
Director She's Not My Relative (staged reading) Ma-Yi Theatre Ensemble
Director He & She (staged reading) Ma-Yi Theatre Ensemble
Director Comeback (staged reading) Abingdon Theatre Company
Director The Ring (staged reading) Lincoln Center Institute
Director I & Thou (staged reading) Playmarket
Director Who'll Save Isaac Now? (staged reading) Playmarket
Director Pilgrims (staged reading) La MaMa La Galleria & WPP
Director A Play On Words (staged reading) Barnes & Noble
Director Clearance Sale at the Five & Dime (reading) New Dramatists
Director Made as the Blood sound (reading) Women's Project & Productions
Assistant Director God, the Crackhouse, & the Devil Mary Beth Easley/Circle Rep Lab
Assistant Director Dream of a Common Language Liz Diamond/Women's Project
Assistant to Director Frida: The Story of Frida Kahlo Hilary Blecher/BAM Next Wave Festival, AMTF, & WPP
Assistant Director Damn Yankees Frank Livoy/Concord Players
Assistant Director How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Frank Livoy/Concord Players
Dramaturgical
Experience
Dramaturg/Director Call of the Klunni Ubu Rep/The Field
Dramaturg The Beauty show Dance Theatre Workshop/Karen Fox, producer
Dramaturg In the Heights & On the Move Iris Presents
Sript Reader Women's Project & Productions
Sript Reader Princess Grace Awards
Workshops & Training
Anne Bogart - Composition
Ginger Friedman - Monologues & Scene Study
Ian Richardson/Sebastian Shaw - Royal Shakespeare Co.
Kevin Kuhlke - Directing (participated as an actor)
Barbara Hipkiss - Monologues
Natalie Burgess - Voice
John Basil - Shakespeare
Professional Affiliations
Member, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, & Dramatists Guild, Prior Member, Women's Project & Productions; Prior Member, Abingdon Theatre Company; Previous Board Member, Women in Theatre; Member, Theatre Resources Unlimited; Member, League of Professional Theatre Women

Education
M.A. in Acting, University of Denver
B.A. in Theatre, University of Delaware