Tommy Smith 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. 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, will premiere at the 2008 PICA TBA Festival in September. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.