DEBORAH SALEM SMITH (she/her) is Trinity Repertory Company’s playwright-in-residence, and a Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow.

Her plays include Someone Will Remember Us (co-written with Charlie Thurston), Anna K., Faithful Cheaters, Love Alone, Some Things Are Private, and Boots on the Ground. She has received multiple commissions, and her writing has been developed at Fiasco Theater, Trinity Rep, Playmakers Repertory Company, and the Huntington Theatre Company. Her work is published by Dramatists Play Service.

Smith grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, and graduated cum laude from Princeton University where she won the Francis LeMoyne Page Visual Arts Award, the Ward Poetry Prize for Superior Work in Poetry, and the Morris W. Croll Poetry Prize Honorable Mention. Smith went on to get her M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Michigan where her writing was recognized with a Hopwood Major Essay Award, a Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship in Poetry, and a Colby Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her teaching was nominated for the Outstanding GSI Award and the David & Linda Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching. She also had poems published in the Berkeley Poetry Review.

She received an Emerging American Artist Fulbright for playwriting at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theater. Other awards include an Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, a Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Honorable Mention, Portland Stage’s Clauder Competition Award (RI Winner), and the Best New Work Motif Theater Award. She was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Drama and for the IRNE Award for Best New Play. Her work has been honored with an Andrew Mellon National Fellowship in the Humanities, a Bray Visiting Scholar/Creative Artist Fellowship, and a MacDowell Colony Residency.

She teaches playwriting in the Brown University/Trinity Rep M.F.A. Acting and Directing program. On windy days, if she opens her window, she can hear the ocean.

Updated April 2026.

Jennifer Drummond (Maxine Singer) is thrilled to be working with Central Square Theater for the first time and deep‑diving into DNA—both onstage and off. By day, she works as an Executive Assistant at a biotech company in Cambridge, which feels fitting and fortuitous given the subject matter.

Jen was grateful to collaborate with playwright Patrick Gabridge on Plays in Place for the 2025 performances of The Kittie Knox Plays—adding “acting while riding a bike in period costumes” to her special skills—and A Revelation of Character. Past favorite roles include Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Ophelia in Hamlet (performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), and Marlene in Top Girls.

Much love to her endlessly patient and sweet husband—and cheers to science!

Dustin Teuber is grateful to be apart of this project and to get to work with some talented people. Dustin credits include  “Mox Nox” (Moonbox Productions), “Little Shop of Horrors” (Winnipesaukee Playhouse), “Black Super Hero Magic Mama” (Company One), “Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy ” (Umbrella Stage Company) and “The Kitty Knox Plays” (Plays In Place). Thank you very much for coming to see our Production.

Gabriel Graetz* (Jane Twisden, Lord Edgar Hillcrest, et al.) Central Square Theater: debut. Gabriel is delighted to be making his CST debut, and to be working with Paul Melendy and David R. Gammons again! Gabriel and Paul shared the stage last fall in GBSC’s world premier production of Featherbaby; David and Gabriel worked together on a different world premier, A Measure of Normalcy, at Gloucester Stage Company in 2015. Recently, Gabriel appeared as Don in Eureka Day and Osric/Player in Hamlet at The Gamm Theatre in Rhode Island, Officer Barrel in Urinetown at Lyric Stage, and Ralph in Reefer Madness at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. Other roles include Morris/ Ensemble in The Outcasts of Penikese Island at Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Duke Senior/Duke Frederick in As You Like It, Kurt/Jocke in Let the Right One In, Sir Peter Teazle/Crabtree in The School for Scandal, Yepikhodov in The Cherry Orchard, and Witch/Flenace/Angus in Macbeth with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Syd Armfield in Hangmen, Charles Guiteau in Assassins, and Lorin in Gloria at The Gamm. Gabriel is an alum of Emerson College and a proud Equity member. Much thanks and love to Tom for running lines and keeping me (mostly) sane!