Dayna Smith is a Boise-based playwright, dramaturg and director with a BA in Theatre Arts, Dramatic Writing from Boise State University. Dayna has worked as a playwright and dramaturg at The Kennedy Center; Seven Devils Playwrights Conference; HMBG Foundation's National Winter Playwright's Retreat; HomeGrown Theatre; Boise Contemporary Theater; Little Theater of Alexandria; and the Boise State University Theatre Majors' Association, and has completed internships with The Playwrights Center; Seven Devils Playwrights Conference; and Boise Contemporary Theater. Her play "NUCLEAR FAMILY" was a finalist for The Playwrights' Center's Core Apprenticeship and a semifinalist for Seven Devils Playwrights' Conference and SPACE at Ryder Farm's Creative Residency. Most recently, Dayna was a resident playwright for Echo Theatre Company's National Young Playwrights in Residence Program, through which she developed her new play, "A LAND OF PLENTY". Dayna is a recipient of a Higher Education Research Council Undergraduate Fellowship and an Idaho Commission on the Arts Quickfunds Grant. Additionally, she is the Artistic Director and a co-founder of Boise's Campfire Theatre Festival.