Marisa Smith
Marisa Smith’s Saving Kitty premiered at the Wellfleet Actors Harbor Theater on Cape Cod and was produced by the New Jersey Repertory Theater, workshopped at the Williamstown Theater Festival and is a Clauder Competition winner (Portland Stage.) Marisa’s comedy Mad Love (O’Neill Festival semi-finalist, NH, Clauder competition winner, Portland Stage) will be the first world premiere produced at the new Northern Stage Theater, White River Junction, Vermont in the winter of 2016. Theresa Rebeck will direct. Other produced plays include: Book Group, The Divine Family Comedy (finalist, Orlando Shakespeare Festival) Kong’s Reunion and The Lumpkin Sisters Christmas Caper. Marisa’s 10-Minute plays have been produced in the Boston Marathon of 10- Minute Plays, Barrington Stage in NY and in other theaters in VT, NH, Florida, New York and Massachusetts. They include: The Dress Rehearsal, Getting into Vassar, The Pre-num, Polar Bear Swim, Day One, Welcome to the Beekman Arms, and Total Expression (Heideman Award Finalist, Actors Theater of Louisville). In 2014 Marisa penned her first film, Second Wind, shot in England, staring June Brown, Harriet Walter and Tamzin Merchant, an Andrew Silver Production. Ms. Smith is the co-owner and Publisher of Smith and Kraus Publishers, a theater book publisher with over 600 titles in print.