Phillip Christian Smith

Troy has been searched for Kassandra, but all that can be found is a beautiful boy who looks just like her, claiming to be of the royal family of Ilium, Kassandros. Agamemnon takes the boy as his prize and lover on the journey back to Mycenae, ignoring all of Kassandros' warnings of their impending doom. Choral chants, Helen's screams, and pent up sexual frustration trouble the ship and journey. It's a prequel to The Oresteia.

A filmmaker with a hidden agenda is making a documentary about standardized patients, the actors who train doctors and healthcare workers to act with empathy in standardized scenarios in hospitals around the country. In this fast-paced dramedy, eight actors play fifty-one characters including doctors, student doctors, nurses, and patients.

Eugene, a mild-mannered librarian by day and a foul mouthed comedian by night, uncovers the hidden legacy of his family's Harlem home which forces him to transform his life.

A group of young Black girls, in a Charter school, decide to put on The Medea during 5th and 6th period. Stage Directions aka Chantal, is beyond pissed that she isn't playing Medea and that a girl named Meshea is playing Medea. Coincidence or Conspiracy? It's a Rap Tragedy.

When Roger comes home from his shift at The Duane Reade, he finds that the children of his Harlem Ballroom house have created a production of The Importance of Being Earnest for his birthday, and he's to play the imperious lead, Mutha Bracknell.

A transplanted middle-aged Black couple, from New York, move to an affluent neighborhood in St. Louis. They discover that the Gateway to the West is the South.

WE CAN’T BREATHE: 5M 2W. In the wake of the 2014 murder of Eric Garner, two gay, black teenagers, living in Bushwick, wish to protest and have their voices heard. The boys are not only coming to terms with their own sexuality, but also their place as black men in America. They deal with fear, hostility, and ambivalence, not only from society, but also from their own families (PlayPenn Finalist, O’Neill semifinalist). Playwrights Realm Reading.

THE CHECHENS: 3 WOMEN 2 MEN In modern Chechnya rumors are going around that homosexuals are being held in camps. Can one family protect their little brother who may or may not be gay, will they turn him in, will they honor kill him. The Parlour, August 2018 directed by Tess Howsam, Exquisite Corpse. O’Neill semifinalist. 2nd production upcoming 2020-21 Season: Theatre Conspiracy, winner of their playwriting award.

Hippolytus, a young boy, is left alone for five years on a space station with an AI named Serena during an interstellar pandemic, which is particularly dwindling an already beleaguered female population. The boy gets a little more than weird. When Hippolytus is ten, his father brings his new young husband Phraedric from The Earth Planet to be a lover to him and a mother for the boy.

COMEDY, ERRORS, VANITY, AND STUPIDITY: 12 CAST 4-6 W 6-8 M. A sequel to The Comedy of Errors. One year later Egeon’s secret that the Antipholus and Dromios are actually triplets comes into the light featuring a female triplet Dromia, much confusion ensues. This play is in verse and prose, and gender casting can be fluid. Semifinalist for Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries at The American Shakespeare Center.

MINDING MISS MAE MAE: 2W 1M. Barbara mid 50’s is Miss Mae Mae’s (also mid 50’s) home health aide. When Barbara’s son Jordan, the star of a network procedural, comes home ravaged from Crystal Meth, the women form their own unconventional rehab to detox him, so he can be ready for a new season of the show. Barbara believes in tough love; Miss Mae Mae who is paraplegic, and a pot smoker, believes in The Lord. This is an all-black cast. Finalist Trustus. Semi-finalist PlayPenn.