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Deborah Salem Smith

DEBORAH SALEM SMITH

  
Nationality:    USA
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DEBORAH SALEM SMITH is the playwright-in-residence at Trinity Repertory Company. In 2014, she was awarded a New Play Commission by Trinity Rep. In 2013, she received a novel commission from Lifespan Hospitals to write and present the one-act DEFEAT IS AN ORPHAN at Grand Rounds. Her play LOVE ALONE received an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award as well as an Honorable Mention by the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. It was also a finalist for Best New Play of 2013 by the Independent Reviewers of New England. Smith's previous honors include an Emerging American Artist Fulbright for playwriting in Dublin, Ireland, where she worked with the Abbey Theatre, Ireland's national theater. Her work has been recognized by a National Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, a Bray Visiting Scholar/Creative Artists Fellowship at Alpert Medical School at Brown University, a MacDowell Fellowship, a Colby Fellowship, a Major Hopwood Award, as well as writing and visual arts prizes from the University of Michigan and Princeton University. Her other plays include FAITHFUL CHEATERS, SOME THINGS ARE PRIVATE, and BOOTS ON THE GROUND.

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below is a list of Deborah Salem Smith's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Boots on the Ground         Defeat Is An Orphan         Faithful Cheaters         Love Alone         Some Things Are Private

Boots on the Ground

Synopsis:
An interview-based play about the effects of the War in Iraq on the homefront

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Created by Deborah Salem Smith And Laura Kepley, Written by Deborah Salem Smith

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docu-Drama

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Defeat Is An Orphan

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Lifespan Hospitals

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one act

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Faithful Cheaters

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Love Alone

Synopsis:
When Helens lesbian partner of twenty years dies unexpectedly in minor surgery, Helen and her daughter want answers. Confused by the hospitals silence around the death, they bring a lawsuit against the doctors. Now Dr. Becca Neal must confront her feelings about losing her patient while she juggles the demands of a lawsuit. LOVE ALONE tracks the fallout in both the patients and the doctors homes, as both households navigate uncharted waters of anger, humor, and longing. This powerful story of how we grieve and how we heal speaks to an essential truth: We will all be patients one day.

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the Play Has Received An Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award As Well As An Honorable Mention By the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award

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Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, R.I.    16 Mar 2012

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015)   978-0-8222-3307-7

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Genre:
drama full length

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Some Things Are Private

Synopsis:
the controversy surrounding Sally Mann's Photographs of her children naked. Art or pornography?

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Created by Deborah Salem Smith And Laura Kepley, Written by Deborah Salem Smith

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Genre:
Surreal docu-Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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