Alena Smith
Playwright
The Sacrifices (2009)
Alena Smith is a member of the 2009 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater and is a 2008-09 Artists Fellow in Playwriting with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). The Sacrifices is her newest play; before being selected by SPF, it was given a staged reading at Playwrights Horizons. Her play The Lacy Project was most recently produced at the American Repertory Theatre's A.R.T. Institute (Cambridge, MA). Lacy was previously produced in the 2007 Ice Factory festival at the Ohio Theater (NYC), developed with Soho Think Tank, and was first seen in the 2006 Carlotta Festival of New Plays at the Yale School of Drama. Other plays include Alice Eat Your Words (Yale Cabaret, Northwestern University, Haverford College), It or Her (Philly Live Arts, Brown University), Apple of Discord (Philly Fringe), and Saturnalia in Poughkeepsie. She is a cofounder and the resident playwright of Dead Genius Productions, an independent dance-theater company whose most recent work was presented by Chashama in Riverside Park. Alena has been a finalist for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and the Princess Grace Award in Playwriting, and was nominated by the Public Theater for the Old Vic New Voices US/UK Exchange. MFA, 2006, Yale School of Drama; ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting.
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