Deborah Salem Smith
Deborah Salem Smith (she/her) is Trinity Rep’s Playwright-in-Residence. Her plays include The Getaway Driver and Someone Will Remember Us (both co-written with Charlie Thurston); Anna K., Faithful Cheaters, and Love Alone; as well as Some Things Are Private and Boots On The Ground (co-created with Laura Kepley). She has been awarded an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, an Emerging American Artist Fulbright, a National Mellon Fellowship, a National Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Honorable Mention, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Drama. Smith was a Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, during which time the idea for this play began. She was also a MacDowell Colony Resident, and a recipient of the Bray Visiting Scholar/Creative Artist Fellowship. She has received many commissions, and developed plays at Fiasco Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Trinity Rep, and Playmakers Repertory Company. She attended Princeton University and the University of Michigan.