Dayna Smith

In a not-far-off future United States, four women work for the Big Beautiful Administration's government snitch tipline. As Sue, the new hire, learns more about the entity for which they work and the women she works with, it becomes clear that all four of these women must make a choice of what side they're fighting for. Whispers of a secret underground network begin to swirl, and Sue, Babs, Dottie and Carmen are caught in the middle of the battle between the resistance and a corrupt administration. A story of now told through the future, Crossed Wires asks audiences to find what they believe in and stand up for it.

THE GODDESSEY tells the story of Jane, a regular girl from our regular world, as she is sucked into The Wilds, a fantastical, interdimensional place where the divine feminine rules supreme and nothing is as it seems.

Two very different twenty-something women fall wildly in love, a detached scientist grapples with the sudden death of his mother, and a strange, glowing crystal from Jupiter begins to have effects on Earth. BIG BANG PLAYGROUND tells a big story about astrophysics, mental illness, outer space, obnoxious greeting cards, and the enduring, interstellar and absolutely insane power of love. THEMES: grief, lgbtq+, depression, suicide, the big bang

FULL LENGTH PLAY: A brave group of pioneers make the pilgrimage west in search of a better life. As winter rapidly approaches and the travelers are trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains, some rise to meet the challenge of survival and some have a long way to fall. A story of determination, responsibility and of the American dream, A Land of Plenty examines what American families in search of prosperity really look like. THEMES: the Donner Party, the great frontier, problematic leaders, strong women, the American dream

FULL LENGTH PLAY: It’s the not so distant future and robots are working our jobs, running our families and fulfilling our every need. DAD, MOM, SON and DAUGHTER live a seemingly normal middle-class American life with the assistance of their household bot NiNa, but with every gain there is a cost. Can the family stay connected in a world where the definitions of "love" and "humanity" become more and more ambiguous as the years press on? THEMES: ethics in robotics, AI, the American family

FULL LENGTH PLAY: Teetering on the edge of adulthood, Kate, Tim and Marco's futures are blank slates. But when a prank goes terribly wrong and leaves a classmate dead, their options begin to unravel. Can they push past their demons to live lives they can be proud of, or are they destined to be burnouts forever?

TEN MINUTE PLAY: Eleanor was the First Lady. Amelia was a record-breaking pilot. They're both dead. In TO BE AN INVINCIBLE WOMAN, two historical women and best friends meet again in whatever place waits beyond death to face the way they were separated, what they could have been and what they were.

FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES, ONE ACT: When her classmate refuses to let her play baseball with the boys and her friend Connor fails to stick up for her, Alexis feels she'll never be seen as equal. A whirlwind of frustration and a foul ball later, and Alexis and Connor are sent back in time to the 1930s-- a time where equal treatment of others is notably absent and discrimination is in full force. They meet Marty, a doubtful boy without much faith in the possibility of change-- only to find out "Marty" is actually young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As Alexis and Connor try to find out a way to get home, the changes they make to the past affect the future. Can they convince Marty to rise to find his place in history? And can they make any progress against discrimination with just some hope and an old textbook at their fingertips?