Molly Smith

Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith presents the design for its new Mead Center for American Theater in 2007.

Molly Smith is the artistic director of Arena Stage in Washington D.C.. She has been focused on new play development for the past 30 years while at Arena Stage as well as Perseverance Theatre on Douglas Island in Juneau, Alaska, the theater she founded and led for 19 years.^[1] She founded Arena's downstairs series, which has held readings and workshopped some sixty plays, half of which have gone on to full productions. Smith has commissioned numerous world premieres including Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive and Mineola Twins, Tim Acito’s The Women of Brewster Place, Moises Kaufman’s 33 Variations, Charles Randolph-Wright's Blue, Zora Neale Hurston's lost American play Polk County and Passion Play, a cycle by Sarah Ruhl. Her directorial work has also been seen at the Shaw Festival in Canada, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, and Centaur Theatre in Montreal, and includes the shows South Pacific, Mack and Mabel, Anna Christie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.^[2] Smith has served as Literary Advisor to the Sundance Theatre Lab^[3] and formed the Arena Stage Writers Council,^[4] composed of leading American playwrights. Smith brings artists of international serves as a member of the Board of the Theatre Communications Group as well as the Center for International Theatre Development. She directed two feature films, Raven's Blood and Making Contact, and received Honorary Doctorates from both Towson and American Universities.

See also

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References

1. ^ "Shaw Festival 2008" shawfest.com
2. ^ Arena Stage / About Arena / Leadership arenastage.org
3. ^ Sundance sundance.org
4. ^ Arena Stage Announces Partnership with Georgetown Theater baltimore.broadwayworld.com

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