Tom Smith’s published plays include Drinking Habits, Drinking Habits 2: Caught in the Act, Dangerous, and The Odyssey (Playscripts); ESL, What Comes Around, A Christmas Carol, Johnny and Sally Ann… and The Wild and Wacky Rhyming Stories of Miss Henrietta Humpledowning (YouthPLAYS); Marguerita's Secret Diary (Concord Theatricals); Gray (Original Works Online); and Two Gentlemen of Verona (editor) (Encore Performance Publishing). Monologues and scenes from his plays appear in twelve collections of works published by Meriwether Publishing and Smith & Kraus, and his short plays have been produced internationally. His full-length plays have been enjoyed by audiences in cities across the U.S., including Seattle, Kansas City, San Francisco, and Chicago, as well as in Australia, Austria, Belgium...
Tom Smith’s published plays include Drinking Habits, Drinking Habits 2: Caught in the Act, Dangerous, and The Odyssey (Playscripts); ESL, What Comes Around, A Christmas Carol, Johnny and Sally Ann… and The Wild and Wacky Rhyming Stories of Miss Henrietta Humpledowning (YouthPLAYS); Marguerita's Secret Diary (Concord Theatricals); Gray (Original Works Online); and Two Gentlemen of Verona (editor) (Encore Performance Publishing). Monologues and scenes from his plays appear in twelve collections of works published by Meriwether Publishing and Smith & Kraus, and his short plays have been produced internationally. His full-length plays have been enjoyed by audiences in cities across the U.S., including Seattle, Kansas City, San Francisco, and Chicago, as well as in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Tom authored The Other Blocking: Teaching and Performing Improvisation (Kendall Hunt) as well as articles and reviews for Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, SDC Journal, The Players Journal, and several resource books. Tom graduated from Whitman College with a BA in Dramatic Arts and earned his MFA in Directing from University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is a proud member of Dramatists Guild.