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Alexa Smith

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Alexa Smith

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Playwright

Alexa Smith is a playwright whose work explores power, identity, history, and justice. 

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BIRTHRIGHT

  

Cast: 9 (with doubling)

Genre: Drama/tragedy
Setting: New York, province of the English Crown, Eighteenth Century

Full-length play
A fiercely intelligent woman takes the most powerful man in colonial New York to court, challenging a system that has defined the nation and confronting the legal, emotional, and historical forces shaping her life and that of her last living relative.

Themes: race, law, power, women, commerce, identity, resistance
 

THINGS UNKNOWN

  

Cast: 8

Genre: Drama/tragedy
Setting: Midwest, early Twentieth Century

Full-length play
A shrewd man, determined to leave a legacy, must reckon with his own insecurity. 

Themes: race, legacy, business, power, resistance
  

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