Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith

Kyle A. Smith’s (they,she,he) plays include The Part of Me (Excerpts at Graeae Theatre, MadLab Theatre, Princess Grace Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist), Paralysis (DGF Fellowship Finalist, Transformation Theatre, University of Kansas (upcoming)), In Time (No Frills Theater), Whiteout (Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Semi-Finalist), Blinded (O’Neill Semi-finalist, Goldberg Prize Finalist...
Kyle A. Smith’s (they,she,he) plays include The Part of Me (Excerpts at Graeae Theatre, MadLab Theatre, Princess Grace Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist), Paralysis (DGF Fellowship Finalist, Transformation Theatre, University of Kansas (upcoming)), In Time (No Frills Theater), Whiteout (Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Semi-Finalist), Blinded (O’Neill Semi-finalist, Goldberg Prize Finalist), Fascists and the People Who Kill Them (Sohaya Vision’s RAFTA Runner Up), Miss Conduct (1st place New Thrills Festival), Miss Direction (Adelphi University, Queen’s Theater), Miss Orientation (Adelphi University), Frisky (Emerging Artist’s Theatre, Equity Library Theatre), and Don (Equity Library Theatre, Secret Theatre). Kyleanthonysmith.com. MFA: NYU, DDW.

Kyle is Brooklyn based, Agender, Bisexual, Bipolar, Autistic, and frankly has too many parts of themselves to keep track of. They have a lovely cat and spouse.

Plays

  • The Part of Me
    FULL LENGTH: In The Part of Me, a pan sexual bipolar woman breaks up with her girlfriend, embarking on an odyssey of self-discovery that is colored by her mental illness. This expressionist tale is a comic exploration of mental illness and sexuality through the lens of a woman who finds herself faced with no other option but to confront and deeply consider her sense of self.
  • PARALYSIS
    Full Length: Joy's coping with their break up about as poorly as one can. They locked themself in their room and are trying to get over their depression with bed rest. But when days turn to weeks, reality into nightmares, and they repeatedly wake up to sleep paralysis, Joy must face their depression head-on or lose their grip on the real world forever.
  • Fascists and the People Who Kill Them
    FULL LENGTH: Dunk is satisfied with his life in the Democratic Democracy of Libertaria. He prepares bodies to be dumped in mass graves, has a beautiful government-issued second wife, and two lovely children who love contraband media. When Dunk’s father is killed for treason, Dunk needs to convince his government sentinel, Crom, that his family is just an average law-abiding family. His dysfunctional family has other plans.
  • On Love & Robots
    FULL LENGTH: Caryl is bringing her fiancee Anne home to meet her conservative, homophobic parents and tell them they're getting married. When she arrives, she discovers that her parents have been replaced by robots sent from the future to kill her firstborn son. Caryl must find her real parents, escape the robots, and, maybe, if all goes well, find some acceptance along the way.
  • In Time
    FULL LENGTH Billy has become unstuck in time. He travels his own timeline, endlessly searching for a way to save his wife. But the past resists change. Unstuck in Time is about how we process our lives, and cope with our loss.
  • Blinded
    FULL LENGTH: In this adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, Rex is detaining Hormazd for a perceived crime. As Rex digs into Hormazd's past, he faces the consequences of his own actions, and attempts to flee the organization he's acting under. When he gets to Columbus his past catches up with him as he asks the question we all wonder: is forgiveness even possible? Blinded is...
    FULL LENGTH: In this adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, Rex is detaining Hormazd for a perceived crime. As Rex digs into Hormazd's past, he faces the consequences of his own actions, and attempts to flee the organization he's acting under. When he gets to Columbus his past catches up with him as he asks the question we all wonder: is forgiveness even possible? Blinded is about the harsh realities we must face if we ever wish to move forward as a country.
  • The Correctable
    Gird your loins! In this parody of The Crucible, John seeks redemption from his wife Liz for sleeping with a teenager, Anna. It's too bad that the whole town is engrossed in a witch hunt to root out their own "witch hunt" perpetrated by teachers preaching woke principles. John must navigate a shed-hungry priest, the American judicial system, and a way overworked understudy to get the forgiveness...
    Gird your loins! In this parody of The Crucible, John seeks redemption from his wife Liz for sleeping with a teenager, Anna. It's too bad that the whole town is engrossed in a witch hunt to root out their own "witch hunt" perpetrated by teachers preaching woke principles. John must navigate a shed-hungry priest, the American judicial system, and a way overworked understudy to get the forgiveness that, quite frankly, he doesn't deserve.
  • WHITEOUT
    FULL LENGTH: Whiteout is a mistaken identity play set in a white rural North Dakota community, in which the people being mistaken are two black men who look nothing alike. These two men, both named Kevin, and one of their wives, Taylor, must navigate through pepper spray and collapsible plungers, through fifty shades of racism, through "Shmirnoff Ice" and overfriendly BNB workers, to find order in a town that breathes chaos.
  • Missed Connections
    FULL LENGTH: A collection of ten-minute plays written around femme presenting actors. These plays deal with mental health, neurodivergence, LBGT women, slut shaming, body shaming, murder, Qanon, and acceptance. Bring tissues, and get ready to laugh.
  • More Weight
    ONE ACT: Agnes is having a bad time. She's studying American History, up close and personal, with her traveler's license, visiting obscure, famous men in America's past. The through-line? They're all abusive and belligerent to the women in their lives. This comes to a head when Agnes visits Giles Corey, of Salem Witch Trials Fame, on the third day of him being pressed to death, as Agnes...
    ONE ACT: Agnes is having a bad time. She's studying American History, up close and personal, with her traveler's license, visiting obscure, famous men in America's past. The through-line? They're all abusive and belligerent to the women in their lives. This comes to a head when Agnes visits Giles Corey, of Salem Witch Trials Fame, on the third day of him being pressed to death, as Agnes considers what is worth changing the future over.
  • Frisky
    ONE ACT: A woman falls in love with the TSA agent who frisks her. As her love turns to obsession, we are left wondering: what will we give up for a sense of security?
  • Miss Orientation
    ONE ACT: Miss Orientation follows Frederica as she tries to shed some serious weight for a school dance. With her closest confidants pushing her in some unhealthy directions, she finds solace, and acceptance, in a new friend, who blossoms into something more.
  • Miss Direction
    SHORT: Miss Direction is a play about trying to save the ones you love. Louise wants to take her sister Carrie home and out of a bad situation, but Carrie is resisting the change.
  • Miss Diagnosed
    SHORT: Annie confronts her old psychiatrist about a missed diagnosis that has led to a lot of pain.
  • Miss Conduct
    SHORT: Two women actors have decided to kill their old producer turned sexual assaulter. One of the women, Heather, is having second thoughts, and it's up to Alice to get Heather's head in the game.
  • Miss Treatment
    SHORT: Ginny has it all, a great relationship, her dream job, acceptance from her mom. So when she asks Doctor Kay to assist her suicide, Kay has a little bit of difficulty processing the request.
  • Miss Education
    SHORT: Mr. Joe wants you to practice safe sex. His abstinence-only education video is sure to show you the dangers of premarital sex, as long as the women involved behave themselves…
  • Miss Gendered
    SHORT: Lisa's getting married to the love of her life, Kay! But when an unwanted family member crashes Lisa's wedding, Lisa must decide how to proceed with the situation, without ruining her big day.
  • Miss Information
    SHORT: Kate and Meredith have conflicting needs. Meredith needs to come up with the perfect response
    to the libtard cuck who keeps commenting on her posts, and Kate needs to pack up their home to
    get ready for the mass climate migration. This play is all about the things that get us riled up and
    the things that should.
  • Don
    SHORT: Don reflects on the choices he made to get where he is, as Keith struggles to get Don out of the rain.
  • If a Tree Falls
    SHORT: A woman takes a man out to a remote part of the woods to burn his flesh off with acid for a past misdeed. The man, who happens to be awful, tries to figure out the misdeed, and convince her not to kill him.
  • A Light in the Dark
    SHORT: A man who's been laid off thanks to the Covid-19 crisis breaks into a church looking for supplies. It's up to Jesus, the church's janitor, to get him out and on his way.
  • Intrusive Thoughts and Me
    ONE MINUTE PLAY: Denise wants to ride the subway in peace. Her intrusive thoughts don't like this plan.