Smith's plays, seen in New York, Minnesota, North Carolina, Louisiana and throughout Texas, have received numerous honors and awards including the David Mark Cohen New Play Award, the Concordia New Play Award, the Director's Choice Award from the Kennedy Center ACTF, seven B. Iden Payne Awards, and three Austin Critics Table Awards.

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• Despair's Book of Dreams and the Sometimes Radio
  It's the waking dreamscape of a lonely abandoned man capering through the confines of a house as jumbled and tattered as the ruins of his mind. It's soliloquy and song, music and mysticism, even a scattered meditation on the tenuous phantoms of audio frequency. Or infrequency, as the case may be.
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  Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities
  Smith's adept take on Dickens' monumental tale of a world turned upside down in Revolutionary France is as fresh as it is honest. This adaptation molds the immense detail of a story in which two men's lives intertwine with an almost star-crossed duality into a satisfying, accessible vehicle.
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  The Deluge: On The Shoulder of Night
  The rain comes down. It falls over the entire earth: in the fields, the olive groves, on animals, and through cracks in the small, raw wooden room that is the center of existence for what may be the only two people alive. They are friends, lovers, spouses, and soon to be parents. But they are moving in opposite directions, more and more, coming apart as the rain comes down. And in.
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• Moby Dick
  Commissioned by Summer Youth Theatre 2002, this precise and highly theatrical take on Melville's classic American novel unfolds through flashbacks, dialogue, movement and music.
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• The Clumsy Dragon
  Created for elementary age children and family audiences, this imaginative new musical recounts the exploits of a young wizard named Alzabar, and a clumsy dragon called Mirabelle, who must overcome a number of challenges in their budding friendship.
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  List of Complete Works