Page 73 Productions proudly announces that Tommy Smith is
the recipient of the 2008 P73 Playwriting Fellowship. A graduate of Julliard, as part of his
fellowship year, Tommy Smith will work on his new comedy The Wife, a play about a Hasidic Jews that takes characters from
wildly different socioeconomic backgrounds and jams them up against one
other. In addition, he'll be working on
the libretto of a musical adaptation of Georges Bataille's The Story of the Eye. Tommy
will receive a cash prize and development support for these two projects.
Launched in 2003 and awarded each year to an early-career
playwright who has not received wide public recognition or production
opportunities in New York City,
the P73 Playwriting Fellowship provides year-long development support to one
early-career playwright annually. In
addition, the recipient of the P73 Playwriting Fellowship receives a cash
prize. Past recipients of the P73
Playwriting Fellowship are Kirsten Greenidge, Jason Grote, Quiara Alegría Hudes
and Krista Knight. Quiara Alegría
Hudes's Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, which was developed as part of the P73
Playwriting Fellowship in 2005 and produced by Page 73 in 2006, was a Pulitzer
Prize finalist for drama in 2007. Jason
Grote's 1001, which was developed in part with the support of the P73
Playwriting Fellowship and produced in 2006 by Page 73 under the direction of
Ethan McSweeny, recently appeared on Time Out New York's "Top Ten Theater List
for 2007".
Tommy Smith's plays include White Hot, Sextet, Air Conditioning, Sunrise,
Demon Dreams and Caravan Man (with Gabriel Kahane). Tommy's work has been seen at
The Flea Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival,The Ontological Theatre, 78th Street
Theatre, The Huntington Theatre, ACT Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Eugene
O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, among
others. He is a two-time winner of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize for emerging
writers (2005 and 2006). Tommy is also a graduate of The Juilliard School's
Playwriting Program, and recently directed/co-conceived Reggie Watts'
Disinformation at The Public Theatre's Under The Radar Festival.
Page 73 is a non-profit theater company that produces and
develops the work of early-career playwrights who have yet to receive wide
public acknowledgment or substantial production opportunities in New York City. Page 73's
signature program is the P73 Playwriting Fellowship, an annual fellowship
awarded to one early-career playwright each year wherein Page 73 acts as that
writer's advocate and producer. The P73 Fellowship is made possible through the
generous support of Joseph and Carson Gleberman, Joanne Jacobson and the Harold
and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.
Tommy Smith
